Lowick Ave – Carter’s Lane Re-named Lowick Avenue. Named after Lowick, a village in Northumberland, England. Carter’s Lane first appears in street directories in 1924. Re-named Lowick Avenue in 1933 by the Public Utilities Committee of the Heathcote County Council.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I checked Papers Past and very little information there. The street was renamed because there were several other Carter’s Lane and Carter’s Streets in Christchurch. In a report in 1932 it used the word Lawick for the renaming but Lowick used in later reports.It is likely that Carter’s Lane was named after someone with the surname Carter but I couldn’t prove this. The central city Carter’s Lane would have been named after James Carter a carrier but I couldn’t find any connection to the Cashmere lane. I searched ancestry website but had no luck finding out more information. I was hoping to find someone born in Lowick or a family connection to Lowick.
The earliest mention I could find on Papers Past was in 1918 and a section was for sale in 1921.
I didn’t actually walk this lane as it looked like a driveway and there are only four properties here. Checking the QV website there are two houses from 1910 and one from 1920 with a 4th one demolished. The lane runs off Hackthorne Rd.
When researching Dyers Pass Rd I found a Miss Carter living on Dyers Pass Rd in the 1940s.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 