Pilgrim Place in the suburb of Sydenham, Christchurch

Pilgrim Place – Named after the Pilgrim, the first steam engine to run in Canterbury. Named because it was developed near the site of the Moorhouse Avenue railway station subdivision. First appears in street directories in 1995.
That information from the library website was more interesting than I expected. This street has several shops and a medical centre on it. Lots of new businesses in the area including Paragon Computers. Being so close to Moorhouse Ave there is of course a car yard.The restaurant Dennys that has been here for years. My first memories here are from when the railway station was here and I used to travel to high school on the train from Lyttelton. When the passengers trains stopped running the railway station was turned into Science Alive plus there was a movie theatre. I loved taking my sons to Science Alive and the best memory is sleeping with Dinosaurs. There was a huge dinosaur display and they had an event where you could stay overnight. I don’t recall getting much sleep that night as I took my sons and all their friends. I don’t recall the other parents doing the same things that I did with the boys.
My photo is of street art beside an empty section.