San Rafael Place in Burnside – Named after San Rafael, a cul-desac in Los Angeles.Formed on land previously owned by Annette Flay, a daughter of Professor Flay. Peter Foster visited a magnificent cul-de-sac in Los Angeles named San Rafael and named the street
after this. He felt it also seemed to go with other nearby street names, Rubens Place and Rembrandt Place. First appears in street directories in 1993. Information supplied in 2009 by Peter Foster.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I can’t find any record of Annette Flay being registered on the electoral roll in New Zealand. There are a few entries in Papers Past which set me looking up the CGHS magazines that I have. Annette started at CGHS the year after my sister started there but she would have left before I started there. I suspect that she left NZ for the UK and never returned. She possibly married in the UK in 1977.
This street runs off Ambleside Drive and is another tree lined pleasant street. My usual complaint about the lack of of proper footpath. All houses here were built in the 1980s and one house really intrigued me. The house itself didn’t really stand out but it had a strange 3D triangle shaped window. One house I liked was also built in 1980 but in an older style.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 