Moore St – Named after Thomas Moore (1779-1852). Nelson Street first appears in street directories in 1892. Re-named Moore Street in 1909. Moore was an Irish poet. Probably named to continue the theme of “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council in January 1880.
A small amount of information from the library website. A short street that runs from Strickland St to Browning St. At Browning St it curves and looks like just one street but the street name changes. Not many house but one cottage looked like an original workers cottage.
I did look at Papers Past but there were too many streets with the same name in several towns. I suspect that the reason for the name change from Nelson St to Moore St is that there were already two streets with that name in Christchurch, One in New Brighton and one in Riccarton.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 