Pope Street – Some of the streets in this vicinity were named after railway employees. First appears in the Star in 1894 when a “house fronting Pope Street” is advertised for sale. It is described as being in “Crewe, Addington”.
A bit of information from the library website and will be researching this one as well. A short street with a mixture of new and old buildings. I think that the business Akaroa Salmon might be slightly lost as we are nowhere near Akaroa. There was a weird structure outside a car business that I have no idea what it was. Looked a bit like a kiln.
It is possible that the street was named after Francis Joseph Pope who lived on Clarence St and he died in 1928. His son Patrick Joseph Pope lived on Pope St. Either or both could have worked for the railways.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 