Parkham Drive in Burnside – Named after Douglas McIntyre Park (1888?-1968)Park was in business with Mabel Winifred Witbrock (1893-1991). They ran a vegetable market in Bedford Row. First appears in street directories in 1980. Information supplied in 2010 by Ngaire Anne Kelly, granddaughter of Annie Witbrock and niece of Mabel Witbrock, in an interview with Margaret Harper.
A small amount of information from the library website and my personal view is that it is totally wrong.
Parkham is a place name in the UK and in the same area as Arlington and Ilfracombe which are also nearby street names. Douglas McIntyre Park was born in Palmerston North and moved to Christchurch in 1917 which was the same year of his marriage. He went to work as an auctioneer for a company called A E Brown and Co who were on Lichfield St. The company dealt in fruit and vegetables as an auction company. By 1927 Douglas had his own auction company known as Park, Davis and Company and this was based on the corner of Lichfield St and Bedford Row. In 1930 Douglas M Park was a close neighbour of Annie Witbrock in Stratford St. Mabel Witbrock possibly grew fruit and vegetables to sell at auction but I could only find her selling sheep at auction and is described in the electoral rolls as a farmer.
I was very busy on Papers Past and the ancestry website. This street runs off Witbrock Crescent and most houses were built in the 1990s. There is one house on the corner of Parkham Drive and Witbrock Crescent built in 1970. The street has a walkway and reserve that takes you to Grahams Rd. As usual there is a footpath on only one side of the street but it did look like a lovely street with the houses being a variety of designs. I suspect the they would all be well above my budget.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 