Peacock Street in the Central City, Christchurch

Peacock Street – Named after the Hon. John Thomas Peacock (1827- 1905) Peacock was elected the first mayor of St Albans in 1881. He was a Methodist, associated with the St Albans Methodist Church. He may have been present at the Methodist Conference in 1874 which led to the naming of Conference Street. Beveridge Street also has Methodist connections. The council was asked to take over Peacock Street as a public street in 1875. First appears in street directories in 1878 but was not recognised as a public street by the Christchurch City Council until 1960.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website for a short street.
This street runs from Durham Street to Montreal Street and there are still a few older houses left but most have been replaced by modern houses. This area would have been hit badly by the earthquakes. The Peacock Fountain in the Botanic Gardens was also named after the same man.