Beaumont Street – Named after Francis Beaumont (1584- 1616). Beaumont was a poet and dramatist. 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. First appears in street directories in 1887.
A small amount of information from the library website. Papers Past has ads for sale of sections dated 1881. Several ads for sale of cottages in 1885 and 1886. There was a letter of complaint dated in 1889 where a householder was refusing to pay his rates until the drains were fixed. In 1882 there was a letter of complaint where someone was complaining about his neighbour lighting bonfires. In 1919 there were ads from a joinery company on this street.
QV has the houses here dating from 1890 to 1915. The houses are looking rundown and are only on one side of the street as the Countdown supermarket takes up the full extent of the other side of the street. There is also a tyre company on this street at the Colombo St end. This street didn’t do a lot for me but the gorgeous Shelley St runs of Beaumont St.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 