Searidge Lane in the suburb of Scarborough, Christchurch

Searidge Lane in Scarborough – formerly Pearson Lane. Pearson Lane first appears in street directories in 1993. Re-named Searidge Lane in 1995.A tiny amount of information from the library website. Searidge is a fairly obvious considering the lane sits above the sea near Whitewash Head. It didn’t keep the name Pearson for very long and my best guess is that Pearson was someone’s surname. I couldn’t find anyone with that surname living there and I checked 1960s and 1970s electoral rolls. There was a council inspector with that surname who lived in Sumner and possibly went to Sumner School but it is still guesswork on my part. I will confess that I didn’t actually walk this tiny lane but sometimes the private lane signs make it very clear that a random nosy woman isn’t welcome. Only 5 houses here built 1990s and 2000s. It leads off Taylors Mistake Road by Nicholson Park. They would have fantastic views here and I would imagine that it could get very windy.