Eveleyn Couzins Avenue in the suburb of Richmond, Christchurch

Eveleyn Couzins Ave in Richmond – Named after Eveleyn Charlotte Couzins (1896- 1945). Miss Couzins was a niece of Sir Ernest Andrews, the mayor of Christchurch 1941- 1945. She acted as his mayoress and the street was named after her at his request. The street was formed on land that had previously belonged to Avebury House. In a government housing subdivision. Named in 1945. First appears in street directories in 1950

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Papers Past had a little bit of information about the street and a lot of information about the Eveleyn Couzins Memorial Fund. In the 1950s someone was selling Christmas trees every December and there was a dressmaker living on the street. In 1967 the building housing the Plunket Rooms became the Cora Wilding Youth Hostel and it could sleep 28 people. It closed as a Youth Hostel in the 1990s. The Cora Wilding Youth Hostel was in Avebury House and Avebury House originally belonged to the Flesher family. This building was built in 1882.

The small reserve was named Avebury Park in 1948 and in 1956 there were plans for flats for aged pensioners. My favourite headline from 1961 was Small car dives into Avon.

Avebury House is a gorgeous building and thankfully has been saved from being demolished. There are still a few houses from 1940s on this street and they have the typical State House look about them. There is a huge number of apartments built in 2018 and 2019 and they are possibly social housing but not sure.

At the River Rd end there is a lovely community garden and when I checked google maps from before the earthquakes there was a huge house on a fairly large section on this corner. Many of the original State Houses have been demolished and this is now a green space. The Avebury Park had a playground and when I walked here last Sunday evening it was being used by at least two or more family groups. I actually am not sure if I would like to live on this street as two or three of the houses looked very rundown but I do like Avebury House and I did like the community garden.