Newbery Street in the suburb of Opawa, Christchurch

Newbery Street – Probably named after Newbury in Berkshire, England. Newbury Street first appears in street directories in 1916. Re-named Newbery Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named.
A small amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find any more information on Papers Past. Found both spellings on Papers Past being used at the same time. Older houses here which were built in 1920s and 1940s. There was a big house that is called Newbery House and I now wish that I had got a photo of it. Apparently it was built 80 years ago on the site of a house that was built in 1850. The original house was owned by a John Shearing Willis but I couldn’t find out that he had any connection to Newbury. The modern looking building is the back entrance to a nursing home called Chatswood. Opawa school has an entrance on this street and I took a photo of street art at the school.