Coleridge Street – Formerly part of Fifth Street. The streets south of, and parallel to, Moorhouse Avenue were named in numerical order. Re-named Coleridge Street. Named after Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834). Rooms to let in “Fifth Street, short distance from Gas Works” are advertised in the Star in 1874. Fifth Street appears in street directories in 1878 and on an 1879 map. The section of Fifth Street west of Gasworks Road (later Waltham Road) first appears in street directories as Coleridge Street in 1887. Coleridge was an English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I checked Papers Past and nothing that I can add. Another street in Sydenham that used to be residential but now a business area. As with the rest of Sydenham a lot of businesses connected to the car industry. There was a funeral business here and there were at least three or four funeral businesses that I walked past last night. Another mixture of new and old buildings. Too many different types of businesses for me to remember them all. There was street art here and it is slowly being covered up by a new building. I liked the art work at a business especially the one of a man abseiling. A couple of the buildings looked like they were originally older houses from the residential days of this street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 