Rotherham Street in Riccarton and this street isn’t on the library website. I searched Papers Past and I found entries for this street as far back as 1906 and at that stage it sounds like there were houses surrounded by paddocks. In the 1930s and later the residents were complaining about the lack of street lighting and no proper footpaths. There was at least one stables as there were lots of ads about selling horses.
It is possibly named after a town in South Yorkshire. One half of this street runs through the middle of the Mall and the other half has houses which are mostly flats. My photos are of a building that is fenced off. I remember when this building was brand new and was the bank ANZ. I do have a newspaper clipping somewhere about the opening of the ANZ in this building.The Mall was a lot smaller those days and hadn’t expanded as far as Rotherham St. Where the Hoyts and the rest of the shops are now situated there was an outdoor car park with an old house in the middle of it. The house owner refused to be moved and refused all offers to be bought out. The Mall owners had to wait until the house owner died. I can’t remember if the house owner was a male or female. It was possible to park on this street those days.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 