Lowe Street – Some of the streets in the vicinity of the Addington Railway Workshops were named after railway employees. May have been originally a paper road running along the southern boundary of the Canterbury Saleyards Company’s land. First mentioned in The Press in 1878 when sections in Lowe Street in the “Great Township of Crewe, Addington”, are advertised for sale. First appears in street directories in 1896. The Addington Railway Station and the Railway Workshops are listed then as being in this street.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website and another one I want to do more research on. Buildings on one side and the Blenheim Rd bridge on the other side. I managed a photo of the wall of the bridge. Mostly new buildings but there was an older building where someone was obviously living as there was washing on a line. There was also two dogs that gave me a huge fright when they leapt at the fence barking like mad. I was pleased that it was a high fence.
It is possible that this street was named after a Levi Lowe who died in July 1897 and he lived on Ruskin St. Couldn’t confirm his occupation.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 