Fisher Ave – formerly Fisher Street. Named after James Temple Fisher (1828- 1905) and his brother, Stephen Fisher (1818- 1897). The brothers owned a large area of land in the Beckenham area. Stephen Fisher’s home stood where St. Peter’s Church is in Fisher Avenue now. Fisher Street first appears in street directories in 1903 as a blind street off Colombo Street. Four residents only are listed. Dedicated as a public street in 1907. A petition by 50 residents of Fisher street asking for the street to be re-named Fisher Avenue, was agreed to by the Christchurch City Council on 26 July 1943. Postal authorities frequently confused Fisher street, Beckenham, with Fisher street (later Mountbatten Street), New Brighton.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website and not a lot that I can add. Papers Past had several ads in 1903. 1908 and 1909 for selling sections. There was also an ad for a new house in 1902. As well as a Fisher St in New Brighton there was also one in Papanui. The QV website has the properties dating from 1910 to 1915. The book Beckenham, A Suburb of Christchurch has a good amount of information about the Fisher family and this book says that the land owned by James Fisher was given to him by his father-in-law as a wedding present.
This street goes from Colombo St to Eastern Tce and most houses are gorgeous wooden villas. St Peters Church is near the Colombo St end. There are a few modern houses and a couple of blocks of 1970s ownership flats. At one house there was a basket ball hoop that was positioned mostly on the footpath and you had to dodge a teenage boy throwing a ball into the hoop. Apart from that it was a lovely tree lined street. There was a big section where the original house had been demolished and a new house being built. I was disappointed to see that the developers had cut down mature trees on this section.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 