Ingoldsby Street in the suburb of Sydenham, Christchurch

Ingoldsby Street in Sydenham – Named after Thomas Ingoldsby, the alias of the Rev. Richard H. Barham (1788- 1845). Ingoldsby wrote The Ingoldsby Legends, The Jackdaw of Rheims and The Hand of Glory. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. First appears in street directories in 1916.A small amount of information from the library website. There is also a village in England called Ingoldsby. I vaguely recall that I have read Jackdaw of Rheims a long time ago probably when I was a teenager. Not a lot of information on Papers Past. There were a few death notices for the street. In 1882 inhabitants were willing to give land for street widening and this will open a good thoroughfare from Sandridge. The street was finally widened in 1884. In 1895 the council noted that concrete channels would not abate the nuisance arising from household slops. In 1897 there was a complaint about the bad state of the channels. In the same year of 1897 the road was asphalted. I walked this short street on Monday and it runs from Huxley Street to Cameron St. There are only 14 houses here and there are two houses from 1910 and four from 1920s. One from 1940 and one from 1960. There are three or four from 2019 and they are ugly. A pleasant street and a couple of the older houses were lovely.