Winchcombe Street in the Central City, Christchurch

Winchcombe Street – Probably named after Winchcombe in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Not much information on the library website and this street runs off Durham St and has the car park for South City Mall on one side and Stationery Warehouse and St Johns Ambulance on the other side.
Winchcombe in the UK was fairly near Brockhampton where I worked briefly and it is a lovely area of the UK. I decided to research this street and found out a lot of information. From Papers Past I found council records which said that at the council meeting on Monday 20th April 1891 that they were taking over the Winchcombe St as a public road. The road had been formed and metalled by Mr Fisher at his expense. Going by news reports in Past Papers this was a residential street those days and included a boarding house called Christina’s House.
I found an obituary for Mr Fisher and he was known as Rev Thomas Richard Fisher and he died in January 1890 at Cotswold House, Lincoln Rd. He was born at Winchcombe on 20/12/1806. Sounds like he was a successful businessman in Christchurch and Fisher House was named after him. I also found a blog that mentioned him.

Found Rev Thomas Fisher’s grave in the Addington Cemetery.