Butchers Lane in the Central City. This lane is a walkway behind Smash Palace on High St and is very new. Found two news articles about it from November 2019 and July 2020 but the owner of the land was in negotiation with the council from 2014. The reason for the name was from the historic Knight’s Butcher Shop that operated here from late 1890s to 1985. Not a lot of information on Papers Past but they were fined in 1903 under the Slaughtering Act. I didn’t research James Knight as there is very good information online if you go to Canterbury Stories NZ and look up James Knight butcher. This area is still being worked on and there is some great street art along this lane. There is also new street art in the High St area and well worth having a walk in the area. There is one downside to the lane and that is men using the nearby bushes as a toilet. No I didn’t need to see that man waving his private parts at the bushes when I was trying to get a photo of street art. Gross.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 