Locarno Street – Formerly Church Road. Named because St. Mark’s Anglican Sunday School (later St. Mark’s School) is in this street. Re-named Locarno Street. Named after Locarno in Switzerland. Church Lane first appears in street directories in 1904. Becomes Church Road in 1914. Re-named Locarno Street on 24 May 1926 when 21 streets were re-named. The Treaty of Locarno between France and Poland had been signed in 1925.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. On Papers Past there was information from June 1926 about changing name of the street from Church Rd to Locarno St. There was also information from February 1926 advising that they were going to change the name to Cambourne St but this obviously didn’t happen.
The names Church Road and Church Lane seemed to be used at the same time. There was a funeral notice and a death notice for Mary Cholmondeley in 1911 that used both names.
The QV website has houses built from 1905 to 2015. St Marks School is also on this street and you can see the classrooms and playing fields here. The street goes from Opawa Rd to the Heathcote River and I only managed to get a photo of utilities building.. Opawa tennis courts are also on this street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 