St Lukes Street in the suburb of Woolston, Christchurch

St Lukes Street – Named to continue the street name theme begun by St Johns Street. First appears in street directories in 1981.
The same wee bit of information from the library website as for the other streets I walked today. A mixture of older repaired houses and rebuilds. The rebuilds were

similar to houses that I have seen in new subdivisions especially Northwood. I don’t know if it is just the one architect or several but they have an obsession with columns at the entrances to the houses. There is a wee reserve here next to what used to be a Samoan church. At least I don’t think it is still being used as it had an abandoned look about it. The gardens were more individual here which I liked. Got some good ideas for my place when I can make the effort to tidy up my garden but not from the garden where I managed a photo.There was a huge older house on a huge section and my photo just doesn’t do it justice. I ended up speaking with a couple who were walking home from the shops. They didn’t know anything about this house but suspect that it could be the original house from before the land was sold off for housing. They lived practically next door to this huge property and didn’t know if anyone lived there or anything about it. This couple liked living in the area and their house was on a street that had been developed since the earthquakes. They said that the houses are lovely and warm as they are well insulated. The house and garden was easy to manage which was important at their age. I didn’t walk their street as that felt too much like stalking.

After a bit of research the older house that I liked was built in the 1990s so not as old as it looks. A lot of work has been done on this property as google from 2012 has the land in a very rough condition and no fences. Also some of the land is now a new street. House owned by a local engineer.

Note it was at this stage in July 2019 that a friend suggested that I use WordPress rather than limiting myself to friends on Facebook.