Norwood Street in the suburb of Beckenham, Christchurch

Norwood St – formerly Norwood Avenue and Norwood Road. Named after Norwood near Beckenham in England. Formed through the Riverview Estate. Norwood Street first appears in street directories in 1902. Becomes Norwood Road in 1903. Norwood Avenue was dedicated as a public street in 1907. Officially renamed Norwood Street in 1909.
A small amount of information from the library website. Information from Papers Past has sections for sales in 1912 and 1915. There was also a Norwood St in Linwood. In 1911 there was a complaint about 12 horses being regularly driven down the street every morning and evening destroying the footpath. Information from the Beckenham book had that in 1929 a temporary library was set up in a shop.
The QV website has properties dating from 1910 to 2015. This street runs from Sandwich St to Tennyson St and I often drive it when returning from the South library. You can see so much more when walking. Some nice houses here plus an entrance to Beckenham Park. The street is tree lined and many properties have rocks on their verges to stop people from parking on the street which means a lot of people park blocking the footpath.