Kitchener Place – Named after Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the Earl of Khartoum, usually known as Lord Kitchener (1850-1916). Kitchener visited Christchurch in 1910. First mentioned in The Press in 1945. First appears in street directories in 1947.
A wee bit of information from the library website and I can’t add anything extra. The houses in the street were all built in the 1940s and were wooden. I only managed one photo but there were two other houses that I would have loved to have got photos of as they were interesting. It was a lovely and tidy wee street.
My guess would be that the houses were built for or by returning servicemen which why the name of the street. Also Kitchener had a country seat near Canterbury in Kent so there is that link.It was possibly too raw to use names from WWII which is why a name from WWI was used but that is pure guesswork from me.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 