Seddon Street in the suburb of Sydenham, Christchurch

Seddon Street in Sydenham- Named after Richard John Seddon (1845- 1906). Seddon was the Prime Minister of New Zealand 1893-1906. First appears in street directories in 1909.A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. I didn’t get a lot of information from Papers Past but I did reduce my search down to Sydenham only so possibly missed information. The trouble was that it seemed like every city and town in New Zealand had a Seddon St so there was thousands of entries. It was made a public street in 1919. In 1910 a child was found dead in a registered home. I couldn’t find out what a registered home meant. In February 1910 you could apply for the lease of a workers dwelling. In November 1911 the foundation stone of the first workers dwelling in Christchurch was laid by Hon J A Midler the Minister of Labour. Bit of a delay between applying for the lease and the houses actually being built. There are 77 properties on the street and only a few of older houses are left on the street and none of them stood out. Several from 1970s and the rest were built between 1990 and 2010. I didn’t particularly like the houses here and the modern ones were ugly. They were units crammed onto the sections.