Defoe Place in the suburb of Waltham, Christchurch

Defoe Place in Waltham – formerly part of Cecil Street. Named after Daniel Defoe (1660-1731). Maps in street directories in 1983 show Cecil Street split into two, the section between Brougham Street and Shakespeare Road becoming Defoe Place and the section between Hastings Street and Brougham Street becoming Cecil Place. Defoe was the author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Probably named to continue the theme of “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880.A reasonable amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to it. A lot of streets were affected by Brougham St extension. I will research Cecil St when I walk Cecil Place which won’t be today with temperatures predicted to be in the 30s.This street runs from Shakespeare Rd to Brougham St and at the Brougham St end there is a reserve / green space which didn’t seem to have a name. There are many older wooden villas here from 1905 through to 1925. A couple of houses from 1955 and 1985 and a few more recent modern houses. Most of the older houses were in good condition but a couple were looking a bit rundown.