Wilmers Road in Hornby – Wilmer’s Road is first mentioned in the Star in 1898. Teams were engaged in the formation of Wilmers Road in 1933. First appears in street directories in 1960. Streets in Hornby are not listed separately until then.
A small amount of information from the library website. I found the same information on Papers Past. The road was probably named after George Wilmer and Wilmer St in the central city is named after the same person. George lived at his property in the central city but he also owned a rural property where he had his racehorses. Sounds like he was good cricketer. He was born in Sussex in 1817 and married Mary Ann Kidd in 1848. Still in England in 1851 but didn’t find the date of when he came to NZ. In 1958 a new animal home for SPCA was opened on the road and lots of information on Papers Past about the SPCA. In 1940 a property that had been a sheep farm was for sale. In 1970 two blocks of land were for sale and they had crops of lucerne but no buildings. In 1971 a market garden was for sale.
I was geocaching in the area and was surprised to see houses here. There are 12 houses and apart from one dated in the 1960s the rest were built in the last few years. The street runs from Awatea Rd to Springs Rd and Warren Park is on one side of the road. The houses are at Awatea Rd end of the road and then there is a big section being developed for industrial businesses. The Wigram Fire Station is near Springs Rd. Wilmers Road divides into two and you can walk past the fire station but the other part is blocked off as it belongs to Meadow Mushrooms but there is a walkway that leads to a combined walkway / cycleway that takes you to Addington. A few years ago I took a bus to Springs Rd and then walked home to Addington. The SPCA is still on this road. There is water reservoir with an interesting building on the site. I believe that the design on the building is a map of Canterbury.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 