Strickland Street – formerly Old Christchurch Road -Probably named after Agnes Strickland (1796- 1874). Old Christchurch Road appears on an 1879 map but never in street directories. Strickland Street is one of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. Agnes Strickland was an English biographer. A reasonable amount of information from the library website.
Yesterday on New Year’s Day I walked this street which takes me from Brougham St to Colombo St and I had breakfast at Coffee Culture before returning along Selwyn St.
Another mixture of old and new houses all along this street. There is a fantastic older house which has just been sold and I wish that I could get better photos of it. There is also a community garden on this street and I am thinking of asking them if I could set up a Little Free Library here. One of the new cycleways is along this street and there was a huge fuss made when it was being built. One of the entrances to Bradford Park is on this street and Bradford Park needs it’s own blurb as it does have an interesting history. At Colombo St end there are restaurants. I enjoyed walking this street because of the older houses and the street has interesting things on it. I obviously walked this street a few months ago and this street runs from Addington to Beckenham.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 