Mansfield Ave – Named after Kate Hickman Peacock, née Mansfield, (1835?-1894). Kate Peacock was the first wife of the Hon. John Thomas Peacock (1827-1905). Mansfield Avenue is first mentioned in The Press in 1899 when the street was being formed through the Hon. J. T. Peacock’s Hawkesbury Estate. First appears in street directories in 1903.
A small amount of information from the library website. On Papers Past found the same information about the street being formed. In 1899 there were several ads for the sale of sections and in 1899 and 1900 there were ads requesting tenders for building houses.In 1942 there is mention of Mansfield Hospital at 12 Mansfield Ave.
The QV website has the houses from 1905 to 2000s. There were some lovely houses here and at the Papanui Rd end there was a restaurant and bar. Next to the restaurant was a car park plus a wee reserve with a stream.On the opposite side of the road is a hospice. Further along the road from the restaurant was a very interesting building that looked old but QV has it built in 1980. It is actually several apartments in a mock tudor style and I didn’t manage any photos of it. This street runs from Papanui Rd to Browns Rd.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 