Pennyburn Place in the suburb of New Brighton / Red Zone, Christchurch

Pennyburn Place in New Brighton / Red Zone. Name approved in 1996 but not used until 2000. A tiny amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find any information about the reason for the name. The developers were Rookwood Holdings which was owned by the late Warner Mauger and he had a daughter Penny. There is a place in Ireland called Pennyburn but I couldn’t find any Irish connection for the Mauger family as their ancestors came from Guernsey. I couldn’t find any information about this street from either before or after the earthquakes.The houses have all been demolished here as this area was affected badly by liquefaction. Remains of garden shrubs and trees. I was geocaching in this area today

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