Poplar Street – The council made it a public street on 10 October 1892. First appears in street directories in 1919.
A small amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find any information on Papers Past apart from lots of ads for a furniture factory. In later years this street became a popular area with bars and cafes. This area was hit hard by the earthquakes as the bars were in old buildings. There are still a couple of bars here but it is looking very empty. There was so many people in Dux Central that I couldn’t manage any photos. There was a tiny square here called Vanguard Square which is new since the earthquakes and isn’t on the library website.
I suspect that this street was named after a district in London called Poplar rather than the trees.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 