Moorhouse Ave in the suburbs of Addington, Sydenham and Waltham in Christchurch

Moorhouse Ave – South Belt and South Town Belt. Junction Road and Junction Street were incorporated into Moorhouse Avenue. Formerly South Belt or South Town Belt. Named by the Canterbury Association surveyors who laid out the boundaries of the original city within roadways called ‘belts’ or ‘town belts’. Re-named Moorhouse Avenue. Named after William Sefton Moorhouse (1825?-1881). Re-named Moorhouse Avenue on 11 January 1904 after the merging of several boroughs into the City of Christchurch in 1903. Moorhouse was the second superintendent of Canterbury 1857-1863 and 1866-1868. It was thought appropriate that the street was named after him because of his connection with the Christchurch-Lyttelton Railway and the Lyttelton tunnel. Junction Street is first mentioned in the Star in 1880 in a report of a meeting of the Sydenham Borough Council. First appears in street directories in 1887 as a continuation of the South Belt. It was the section between Fitzgerald Avenue and Ferry Road. Mrs F. J. Lumb of “Junction Street, Lancaster Park” gave birth to a daughter in 1895. Incorporated into Moorhouse Avenue in 1909

A reasonable amount of information on the library website.Lots of entries on Papers Past but mostly a lot of ads. Found a council report dated December 1903 that had details about the renaming of this street.
I walked this street a couple of weeks ago. At one end is South Hagley Park and as you walk along there are lots of car yards along this street and there has always been lots of car yards here. Map World has been here since the earthquakes and all geocachers comment about a grumpy woman who works here.There are three supermarkets and the new Spotlight shop. The Christchurch Railway Station used to be here and when it closed it became Science Alive. Sadly this building was demolished because of earthquake damage. As you get towards Ferry Rd there is the Polytec which is now called Ara Institute. Also a school Marian College. There is also the bus depot where buses are parked up when not in use. Still lots of car yards. There were also a few houses this end. This is a long street which is normally very busy with traffic but in lockdown I was able to stand in the middle of it to take photos. Lots of other businesses and impossible for me to remembering all of them.