Vienna St in Waltham- Part of Thackeray Street. Named after William Makepeace Thackeray (1811- 1863). Re-named Vienna Street. Named after the city of Vienna because Thackeray supposedly had connections with this city In 1981 the Brougham Street expressway extension cut several streets in two. One of these was Thackeray Street. The council decided to change the name of the southern part of the street to Makepeace Street after Thackeray’s middle name but residents objected as they thought the name would be open to ridicule. Vienna Street first appears in street directories in 1987.
A reasonable of information from the library website. I have already written up Thackeray St and the library don’t mention that Thackeray St used to be a longer street. Waltham school is on Vienna Street and it held it’s 50 year jubilee in August 1941. In 1891 the school is mentioned as recently being opened and by 1892 it was already overcrowded. In 1893 there were discussion about additions to the school. The school was closed for a short while in 1934 because of the measles epidemic. There are still a few houses dating from 1880 and 1905 but most date from 1970s onwards. A mixture of styles and some I liked. There is a wee walkway through to Brougham St here. Near this walkway there are some unusual looking apartments and they go all the way to Cecil Place.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 