Roxburgh Street in the suburb of Sydenham, Christchurch

Roxburgh Street in Sydenham- formerly Regent Street. Regent Street first appears in street directories in 1931. Re-named Roxburgh Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named. A small amount of information from the library website. I didn’t manage to get much information from Papers Past apart from death notices. There were so many Regent Streets and Roxburgh Streets that I had to use Sydenham and Beckenham in my search so I probably missed information. I narrowed my search down to four newspapers and still there were so many entries. There was a Regent St in Woolston and it wasn’t helped that New Regent Street was called Regent Street. In 1934 a butcher was fined for breaches of the Butcher’s Award and failing to pay overtime and false entries in the time and wages book. In 1960 a house was purchased to be the vicarage for the parish of St Saviour. They were looking forward to when the new church was to be built on the land adjacent to new vicarage. I walked this street on Friday and the street runs off Colombo St. At the Colombo St end there is the church and a shop. Next to the church church there is a house connected to the church called St Anne’s House. Only 27 properties here and most were built in the 1930s. Many of the houses from the 1930s are lovely. The modern houses from 2017 and 2019 are ugly and don’t fit with the rest of the houses on the street. Looked like a lovely street to live on.