Sandwich Rd – formerly Sandwick Road. Named after Sandwich in Kent. Stephen Temple Fisher (1818- 1897) and his brother, James Temple Fisher (1828-1905), emigrated from Sandwich. The brothers bought a large area of land in the Beckenham area. Sandwick Road first appears in street directories in 1903. Sandwich Road first appears in The Press in 1904. “Sandwick Road, Beckenham” appears in an advertisement in the Star in 1906. Re-named Sandwich Road in 1914. This may have been a spelling correction.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Papers Past had ads for sections in 1907 and 1913. The area was known as Beckenham and Fisherton. In February 1915 a new school was opened on the street. In 1931 a new library was opened on the street. The QV website has the houses dating from 1905 to 1980. The Beckenham book has James Fisher’s father-in-law giving him the land as a wedding present.
This street goes from Waimea Tce to Eastern Tce with a weird kink in the road at Norwood Rd. The library building is still on the street but is now a toy library. The school is still there and at least two of the buildings look like original buildings from 1915. A little bit of street art type of artwork at the school. There is also a Little Free Library especially for children here and I tried to hide a geocache here but it kept disappearing. Some lovely wooden villas on this street and it ilooks like it would be a pleasant street to live on.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 