James Street in the suburb of Redcliffs, Christchurch

James Street -Named after James Pepperell (1859?-1911). Pepperell, a woolclasser, was a Woolston farmer and a member of the Redcliffs land syndicate that subdivided the land where this street is formed. James Terrace first appears in street directories in 1910. Becomes James Street in 1914.Reasonable amount of information from the library website. As usual with an older suburb there is a mixture of new and old houses but more old than new here. The older houses were wooden villas and I do like this style of house. The Redcliffs community centre and bowling club is at one end of the street. I have noticed in these older suburbs that there are many water meters leaking water everywhere and the council has the cheek to tell us that we need to be conserving water.