Stanley Street in the suburb of Sydenham, Christchurch

Stanley Street – Formerly Sixth Street. The streets south of, and parallel to, Moorhouse Avenue were named in numeric order. Re-named Stanley Street. Named after Henry Morton Stanley (1841- 1904). Sixth Street does not appear in street directories, only maps. On a 1879 map it is shown running from Durham Street to Colombo Road only. First appears in The Press in 1878 in a death notice. Stanley was a writer and explorer. 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. Stanley Street first appears in the Star in 1883 when a house there is advertised for sale. First appears in street directories in 1887

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Papers Past had several entries for Sixth Street up to 1882. Not a lot that I can add to this. The Colombo is on one side of the street and various businesses on the other side. Many of the buildings were older and a couple were a bit rundown.The street runs from Colombo St to Durham St. I vaguely recall that there used to be a police station here many years ago.