Lawson Street – Formerly Elizabeth Street. Conway Street was incorporated into Lawson Street. It ran from Queen Street (later Buchan Street) to Hawdon Street. Named after Henry Lawson (1867- 1922) Elizabeth Street appears on an 1879 map and first appears in street directories in 1887. Re-named Lawson Street in 1909. The Star says Elizabeth Street “was vaguely re-named Lawson Street after “a poet”. Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Conway Street appears on an 1879 map and is first mentioned in The Press in 1880. Is incorporated into Lawson Street by 1912.
I found the information from the library website to be a bit confusing. A short street in business area of Sydenham. The only photos are of street art that is now on a building site which is why there are men in one of the photos. The street actually goes to Colombo St and there is a bank on that corner.
Edited as I now realise that my sons used to go to judo on this street when they were much younger. I had in my head that it was Lawson St but when I saw a martial Art place on Penbury St I thought that I must have got my streets confused. I was not confused as the martial art place that my sons went to was on Lawson St but the building has been demolished and the business has moved to Woolston. There is an empty overgrown section where it used to be.