Showgate Avenue in Sockburn – formerly Showgate Drive. Named after a galloper, Showgate.Formed on a subdivision of the Riccarton Racecourse. Showgate Drive first appears in street directories in 1993. Becomes Showgate Avenue in 1995.
A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name. All the houses were built in the 1990s and it is a lovely looking street. The architect who is obsessed with triangle shapes obviously designed houses here. A reasonable amount of green spaces and there is a walkway behind the houses under the power pylons. I am fairly sure that it was this street where someone had a pole person beside their letterbox. I love pole people and treated myself to a pole person reading a book for my birthday a couple of years ago. A man near Geraldine makes them.
I walked this street when returning to my car after an unsuccessful attempt to find a geocache
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 