Bradford Ave – Probably named after Bradford in England. Named in 1935 when the by-laws and finance committee of the Christchurch City Council recommended that “the new street formed in Mr W. Pease’s subdivision of land off Tennyson Street, be named Bradford Avenue”. First appears in street directories in 1936.
A small amount of information from the library website. No information in the Beckenham book and very little information on Papers Past. The best information I could find was that W Pease was a builder who lived on Colombo St and had land off Tennyson St as in 1935 he had title reissued as original was lost. I could find very little information on ancestry website and there were at least three men with the name William Pease. I couldn’t find a grave for William Pease but he died in 1950 and his wife Maria is buried at Bromley. I was looking to see if he was born in Bradford,UK.
A small street and all bar one house were built in 1930s and 1940s. The footpath was on both sides of the street which I liked. The houses were nice wooden houses apart from the brick house from 1990s.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 