Kipling Street – Formerly Mansfield Street. Named after Kate Hickman Peacock, née Mansfield, (1835?-1894). Re-named Hawkesbury Street. Named after the Hawkesbury district in NSW, Australia. Re-named Kipling Street. Named after Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Kate Peacock was the first wife of the Hon. John Thomas Peacock (1827-1905). Mansfield Street was developed through his property and named in 1899. Re-named Hawkesbury Street the same year, when the street was officially formed by the Sydenham Borough Council. Peacock was born in the Hawkesbury district, New South Wales. Re-named Kipling Street in 1909. Kipling was an author and Nobel Laureate in Literature in 1907. He visited Christchurch in 1891, calling in at Coker’s Hotel. Probably re-named to continue the theme of “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham
A lot of information from the library website. I often walk this street because of Pokemon Go. I didn’t realise that it had had so many name changes. It is a mixture of old and new houses. I do have a better photo but I quite like this one.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 