Alpha Avenue in the suburb of Strowan, Christchurch

Alpha Ave in Strowan – Formerly St Andrews Avenue. Named because of its proximity to St Andrew’s College. Re-named Alpha Avenue. St Andrews Avenue is first mentioned in The Press in 1923, where it is described as a “new avenue”. First appears in street directories in 1925. Re-named Alpha Avenue on 24 September 1926, probably because there had been confusion with St Andrews Square. A Papanui war memorial street. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing much that I can add, Very little information on Papers Past and it was mostly ads for lost property or selling items. In May 1923 there were sections for sale. You can check out Papanui War Memorial Avenues on the NZhistory website. I expected to find more information about these avenues and plaques on Papers Past but only found a mention in December 1949 about the Papanui Memorial Tree Planting committee being given permission to erect bronze plaques at the entrances to Memorial Avenues.I walked this street yesterday as I was geocaching in the area. There is a plaque at the entrance to this street. The street runs off Normans Rd beside the shopping centre and it looks like a pleasant street to live in. Several houses date from 1920s with a few from 1930s to 1950s. A couple of ugly modern houses from 2016 which look out of place amongst the lovely older houses.