Upland Rd in Hoon Hay- First appears in street directories in 1953. A tiny amount of information from the library website. I searched several websites and couldn’t find a reason for the name of this street. There are several streets throughout New Zealand with this name. I would understand if it was on a hill but the land is flat. I couldn’t find anyone with that name in the whole of Canterbury and I couldn’t find a matching place name.
The street is on a map from 1950 but not on a map from 1941. There is one house here from 1940 but most are dated in 1950. In 1950 there were sections available with preference given to former servicemen. In 1951 the property at 3 Upland Rd was for sale as the owner was giving up market gardening due to ill health. In the 1950s there were lots of ads for the sale of tomatoes at 4 Upland Rd and at 5 Upland Rd they had grazing available for horses plus sold hay. Not really a lot of information on Papers Past apart from those ads. Hillmorton High School which has an entrance at the end of this street opened in February 1961. There was a brief sentence that I found when googling that said that the school was called Hoon Hay Post Primary School when it opened but nothing on Papers Past about this name. As this name was attached to a photo of a building at Sunnyside it is highly likely to be wrong.
The houses were typical of the houses built in the 1950s and nothing outstanding about them apart from the one that obviously belongs to a hoarder. It has obviously been like this for a while as google street view from 2019 shows all the same junk. I did meet Spider -Man and Ironman on this street and they said that they are the real Spider-Man and Ironman.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 