McLean Street – Formerly St Heliers Street. Named after St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. Re-named McLean Street. Named after the McLean family. St Heliers Street first appears in street directories in 1914. Re-named McLean Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named. Named McLean Street because it is a side street running off Buckleys Road. Alexandrina McLean Buckley (1831?-1902), wife of George Buckley, was a sister of the McLean brothers, pastoralists, Allan (1822-1907) and “Big Jock” of Redcastle, North Otago (1818?- 1902). Library acknowledged Richard Greenaway
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Probably not a lot of information that I can add as the McLean name is fairly well-known in Christchurch. I managed to do a tour of McLean Mansion last year. There were some lovely wooden villas on this street. Also a couple of more modern houses and some rundown places. There was one fantastic Art Deco house.The houses were mostly on just one side of the street as there was a school that took up most of the other side. The school is Te Pa o Rakaihautu a character school that was set up in 2015.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 