Lyndon Street in the suburb of Riccarton, Christchurch

Lyndon St in Riccarton- Formerly Marlborough Street. Named after the New Zealand province of Marlborough. Re-named Lyndon Street. Marlborough Street is first mentioned in The Press in 1899 when sections are advertised for sale there. One of a group of streets named after places in central New Zealand. First appears in street directories in 1904. Re-named Lyndon Street in 1943 because there is a Marlborough Street in Linwood. Tyne Street was suggested as an alternative name.A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Found the same information about the name change and also the sections for sale in 1899. Papers Past mostly had birth and death notices for the street. The name is either a place name in the UK or someone’s surname but couldn’t find anyone with that name in the cemetery database. Ancestry website didn’t give me any likely candidates either. The street runs from Divison St to Picton Ave and the houses date from 1905 to 2020 and cover most decades. The houses dating from 1905 are on back sections and are hard to see because of buildings in front of them. The older houses are wooden and most are in reasonable condition. A lot of multi units on the street and some of the more modern ones are very ugly.