Gregory Ave in Islington – formerly Gregory Road. Named after William Henry Gregory (1877?- 1959). Gregory was an electrical engineer with the electricity department. Formed near the Islington substation. Gregory Road first appears in street directories in 1977. Becomes Gregory Avenue in 1983. Information supplied in 2006 by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council.
A small amount of information from the library website and they have the birth and death dates for the wrong William Henry Gregory.
The William Henry Gregory who was the engineer was born in 1893 in Melbourne Australia and he studied at Manchester School of Technology in the UK. Was resident engineer for Canadian General Electric Company and married his wife Florrie in Montreal. He came to NZ in 1925 and worked at various power stations in both North and South Islands. He was district engineer of State Hydroelectric Dept from 1948 to 1958. This was a period of grave power shortages in NZ after the war. This was from his obituary dated 10th January 1967 in Papers Past. The ancestry website wasn’t much help and the various family trees were confusing. I couldn’t find death details anywhere and it is possibly because they are at the crematorium.
The library have the birth and death dates for a travelling saleman with the same name.
Very little information on Papers Past for the street apart from a few ads for people selling stuff. There are 38 houses here and most were built in 1950s and several in 1990s. None of them stood out and were typical 1950s style. At the end of the street there is a walkway that leads to Kaplan Ave.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 