Broadbent Street in the suburb of Riccarton, Christchurch

Broadbent St – First mentioned in The Press in 1918. First appears in street directories in 1924.A small amount of information from the library website. I searched cemetery database and ancestry website with no luck. The only information I found on Papers Past was sections for sale in 1911 and 1918. In 1924 council called for estimate to repair the footpaths.I could find no reason for the name but suspect it was possibly named after a local landowner but couldn’t find any information to back this up. The QV website was playing up so limited information about the age of the buildings here but at least one is dated from 1920. Most the buildings are multi units but 2 or 3 single houses. There were also holiday houses here and are promoted as being close to Westfield Mall.