Barrowclough Street -Named after Harold Eric Barrowclough (1894-1972) – Barrowclough was a military leader, lawyer and chief justice to the Bench. In a 145-acre housing subdivision planned by the housing division of the Ministry of Works. The land was purchased from the Church Property Trustees and the Loughnan estate. In 1968 the street names sub-committee of the council felt that as Halswell was named after a prominent English Queen’s Counsel it would be appropriate to record the names of judges in street names there. Many of them had been QCs or KCs before appointment to the Bench.
The information from the library was similar to the nearby Stanton Crescent. The houses were a bit more varied here as there was summerhill stone, concrete block, brick and a couple in a material that I don’t know the name for but possibly a form of polite.Yes I checked the spelling of polite and it is correct and it is a form of building cladding. There was at least one house that looked like a recent rebuild. Most of the houses looked OK and there were a couple of nice gardens but there were some rundown looking places. This street runs from Henderson Rd to Rowley Ave and on the Rowley Ave corner there is a Bible Chapel. There was a letterbox that I quite liked.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 