Harvard Ave – Named after the Harvard aeroplane. A name from the old airbase preserved when the land was subdivided in 1998 to form the Wigram subdivision. First appears in street directories in 1987.
A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to this. Houses are on part of this street but there is also the Airforce Museum, Harvard Park and the Archives New Zealand. I hadn’t realised that Archives New Zealand was here as my memory is of them being near the centre of the city. I was overseas living in the UK when the earthquakes happened and didn’t manage to keep up with all the news. Please don’t tell me that I was lucky to have missed the earthquakes. I still feel that I have missed a big part of Christchurch’s history and it was the only time that I was homesick. My son also had to go to a funeral on my behalf.
My son went to Wigram Scouts and I remember all the fundraising to move the scout den from Wigram land to South Hornby school after the land was sold off.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 