Rose St – Named after Conway Lucas Rose (1817- 1910). Rose emigrated as a Canterbury Association settler about 1851 and purchased Rural Section 76, 700 acres on the “Lower Lincoln Road, Heathcote Bridge” in partnership with Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798- 1857). He returned to England in 1855 and died in Chard, Somerset. Sewell’s journal says: Although he had more capital than most settlers, he was unenterprising, did not farm and built a large house in Manchester Street, Christchurch. Spencer’s interest in the land was passed on to his nephew, the Hon. George William Spencer Lyttelton (1847- 1913). First appears in street directories in 1908.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Papers Past had ads for sections in 1907 and 1909. There was also an ad for the sale of the cottage in 1903. I couldn’t find out a lot of information about Conway Lucas Rose and he didn’t stay in NZ for very long. The ancestry website didn’t have travel information for him but I did find information about his will. He lived at Furnham House in Chard and he was worth 24576.80 pounds.
The houses on this street date from most decades and there is a real mixture of styles. One house looked very confused as it looked like a wooden villa with an art deco house attached to the front of it. There was at least one toilet block style of house. There is also an entrance to Cashmere High School on this street. There are also two retirement homes Cashmere View and Rose Court. Between Lyttelton School and Hoon Hay Rd is Centennial Park. .
It was a pleasant street to walk and I had a lovely chat with a man working in his garden.
When I posted this on my Facebook a friend commented that she had a great-uncle live on this street and he was an MP but she only knew his surname. With a bit of googling found Arthur Ernest Armstrong known as Tommy Armstrong who lived at 59A Rose St. His father Hubert Thomas Armstrong known as Tim was also a MP.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 