Edinburgh Street in the suburb of Spreydon, Christchurch

Edinburgh Street – First mentioned in The Press in 1899 in a report of a meeting of the Spreydon Road Board. A letter was read from Harman and Stevens stating that the forming and metalling of Edinburgh Street had been completed and they were now requesting that the Board take it over. First appears in street directories in 1902.A reasonable amount of information from the library website and I found the same report from 1899.I don’t know why the name Edinburgh was chosen for the street and my best guess is that a local landowner was from Edinburgh. There were a huge number of entries for this street on Papers Past and there was another Edinburgh Street in Riccarton. The Riccarton street had a name change in 1941 because of the confusion of having two streets with the same name. Most entries were birth or death notices plus ads. There were several sections available in the 1940s. There were a couple of entries from 1915 that amused me. One from February 1915 was titled A Rocky Road and it was a complaint from a group of residents who said that there were huge rocks on the road and these rocks were causing accidents. In March 1915 the road was inspected and the inspectors couldn’t find the ‘boulders’. This is a long street and runs from Domain Tce to Barrington St. The houses date from 1900 to 2015 and cover every decade. A real mixture of house styles and many of the older wooden villas have survived. Most are in reasonable condition but there was one place that was fenced off. It looked like it was originally a State House. There is some sort of church building at the Barrington St end. I actually have ended up walking this street three times and kept forgetting to write it up.