Beckenham Street in the suburbs of Beckenham and Sydenham, Christchurch

Beckenham Street – Named because it runs through the suburb of Beckenham which, in turn, is named after Beckenham in Kent. Named by Captain Stephen Temple Fisher (1818-1897) after his home town in England. He and his brother, James Temple Fisher (1828- 1905), bought Rural Section 49, 100 acres in the “church district”. First appears in street directories in 1902 although it had been roughly formed in the 1890s.
A small amount of information from the library website. The information that I found on Papers Past had ads for sale of sections in 1906 at a reduced price. Sewers were connected in 1927 and footpaths formed in 1905. The business McKenzie and Willis were here in 1909 and a company called C E Jones was on this street in the 1930s. The Anglican church St Philip was mentioned a few times with new hall and other additions in 1928. Looks like it was originally built in 1914. This church is no longer here and the Beckenham book has the church on Fisher Ave. Looks like it was on the corner of Beckenham St and Fisher Ave and I couldn’t find out when the church was demolished but much of the land was purchased by St Peter’s church.
This is a short street with houses dating from 1905 to 2017. The Tennyson St end has smaller flats that have the appearance of being 1960s and 1970s buildings.
A fairly nice street with some lovely older wooden villas. The playground for St Peter’s School is bordered by this street. The street is in the suburbs of Beckenham and Sydenham. Some real estate agencies have it in Cashmere that is pushing it a bit to put it in Cashmere.