Blakehall Place in the suburb of Spreydon, Christchurch

Blakehall Place – Named in 1966. First appears in street directories in 1970.
A small amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find any extra information. All the houses are from 1960s and 1970s and are mostly summerhill stone. A couple of houses looked more modern but the dates were 1970s. I didn’t manage any photos here and nothing stood out for me. There were some nice gardens that I liked. The street is a wiggly T shape and it looked like a pleasant street and very similar to streets in Hoon Hay and Hillmorton that are from the same era.
There are places in the UK with this name especially houses but as a surname is rare and I couldn’t find any record of the surname in NZ. I looked the possibility of being named after a Blake Hall but couldn’t find anything.

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