Elgin Street – Formerly part of Fifth Street. The streets south of, and parallel to, Moorhouse Avenue were named in numerical order. Re-named Bowen Street. Probably named after Sir Charles Christopher Bowen (1830- 1917). Re-named Elgin Street. The section of Fifth Street west of Colombo Street through to Durham Street was re-named Bowen Street in 1881. The council made this section a public street on 10 October 1892. Re-named Elgin Street on 7 March 1904.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website and nothing that I add to this. Elgin is a place in Scotland.
A short street with shops at the Colombo St end. A few businesses mostly connected the the car industry on this street. The Colombo Mall car park is on this street and takes up most of one side of the street. There are a couple of cafes near the Durham St end. There is one lovely old building here. My favourite shop would be the Steampunk shop and the woman who owns it has a teapot mobility scooter. I don’t personally do Steampunk but love their stuff.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 