Rubens Place in Burnside – Named after Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577- 1640) Rubens was a Flemish painter. First appears in street directories in 1987.
A tiny amount of information from the library website. Street too new for me to find any information on Papers Past. The street runs off Grahams Rd and is a pleasant tree lined street. There is a walkway that leads to another walkway. The second walkway lead to what looked like a large park but sign said Burnside High School. Most houses here built in the 1980s and most were built from brick. I will always remember this street as the one where a local woman had been playing badminton and had lost her shuttlecock in a tree. Her neighbours were very helpful and she eventually retrieved the shuttlecock with the help of a neighbour’s ute. They were all very friendly and didn’t mind me standing there laughing. Told them that it had made my day.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 