Wembley Street in suburb of Sydenham, Christchurch

Wembley Street in Sydenham- Named after the British Empire Exhibition held at Wembley in 1924 Named in 1927. First appears in street directories in 1929.A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the naming of the street. All I found on Papers Past about the name was a brief mention that it was a new street to be called Wembley Street. Owners of the subdivision offered to form and asphalt a footpath. Also offered a strip of land to connect Wembley St to Southey St. In 1928 there was a protest petition from the residents of Longfellow St about the building of a shop of the corner of Longfellow and Wembley Streets. A few birth and death notices but not a lot of information from Papers Past. The QV website had 22 properties and many were built in 1920s. The other decades only had one house per decade. The houses from the 1920s are lovely wooden villas and I did like them. They were mostly on one side of the street and there was also a wee walkway on this side of the street that went through to Southey St. It is possible that it is the same strip of land mentioned in Papers Past. On the opposite side about half the street was taken up with retirement villas belonging to Archer Retirement Village and Rest Home. There was an entrance to the retirement home from Wembley St. It was a lovely looking street and I liked it. Today was a warm day for walking and there were at least two houses that I really loved.