Bangor Street – Formerly Queen Street. Re-named Union Street. Re-named Bangor Street. Probably named after the cathedral city of Bangor in Wales. Queen Street first appears in street directories in 1892. “Queen Street, Kilmore Street East” was re-named Union Street in 1897 as there were “two other streets, one in Sydenham and one in Christchurch named Queen Street”. Named after the Union Rowing Club boats sheds which were in nearby Oxford Terrace. Re-named Bangor Street in 1909. The word bangor comes from the Welsh for a wattle fence.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Mostly new houses here plus empty sections. There was one older building that I would love to have got a photo of but the trees surrounding it were too high. In the middle of the street there is a reserve but then the houses have been demolished and the street is blocked off. The buildings are all at the Kilmore St end of Bangor St.
In Papers Past in 1909 there were several streets renamed and the new names were taken from bishoprics, poets, public schools and admirals. At the same time they proposed renaming the four avenues North, South, East ad West. Thankfully this never happened. Bangor Street was named after the oldest city in Wales and it is also one of the oldest bishoprics in the UK.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 