Rosebery Street – Named after Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929). The earl was British Foreign Secretary 1886 and 1892-1895 and British Prime Minister for one year and 109 days 1894-1895. Land for sale in the “Rosebery Street subdivision” is advertised in The Press in 1901. First appears in street directories in 1904.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website and not a lot that I can add. Papers Past have sections for sale from 1901 to 1907. Also ads for new houses in 1902.
The houses on this street are a mixture ages from 1910 to 2000. Many are older wooden villas. Some are in better condition than others. A couple have had a form of cladding put over the original wood and they just didn’t look right and I didn’t manage a photo of the one that really looked odd with the cladding. There was another house that had been done up really nicely but owner was working on the house so I couldn’t manage a photo. Many of the nicer houses were behind high fences or had mature trees blocking my view. One older house looked really rundown. Decent sized sections here and I could just imagine a developer wanting to buy up as they could put so many townhouses on just one section. Hopefully that won’t happen.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 