Gregan Crescent in Burnside – Named after the Gregan family.Bernard Daniel Gregan (1910-1976) farmed at 341 Wairakei Road. The farm extended from Grahams Road to the shingle pits at Lake Bryndwr. The land was bought by the Government for state housing in 1956. First appears in street directories in 1960. Information supplied in 2007 by Bernice Gregan in an interview with Margaret Harper.
A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. The houses here were built in 1950s and nothing really stood out for me. In 1960s there were a few ads for the sale of houses and some were described as freehold and others described as crown lease. Not a lot of information on Papers Past but I starting to wonder about the residents being accident prone as so many seemed to be reported as hurt in car accidents. A tree lined street that has a walkway through to Kendal Ave. The houses on one side of the crescent back onto Waimairi Cemetery. The street seemed pleasant enough but for some reason I didn’t particularly like it. Weird. It runs from Grahams Rd and circles back to Grahams Rd.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 