Convoy Street in the suburb of New Brighton, Christchurch

Convoy St in New Brighton- Formerly Waverley Street. Named after “Waverley” a novel written by Sir Walter Scott. Re-named Convoy Street. A convoy is a group of vehicles (of any type, but usually motor vehicles or ships) travelling together for mutual support. Waverley Street is first mentioned in The Press in 1897 when a petition from five ratepayers asking the New Brighton Borough Council to take over Waverley Street was referred to the Works Committee. First appears in street directories in 1906. Re-named Convoy Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named. This name continues the theme of naming streets in New Brighton after British Admirals, explorers and fighting seafarers. A reasonable of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to the naming of the street. Papers Past had very few entries for this street. Found a few entries 1897 where the residents requested the council to take over the street. The rest of the entries were mostly birth and death notices. There was also a Waverley St in Sydenham. Only 10 properties in this street and most are from 1980s apart from two houses from 1905. The two older houses were wooden villas that had been modified. There was a car park for the fire station which was on the corner of Convoy St and Hawke St.