Kinleys Lane in the suburb of St Albans, Christchurch

Kinleys Lane in St Albans – First appears in street directories in 1966. A tiny amount of information from the library website.

There was only two entries on Papers Past and it was spelt Kinley’s Lane. One entry was for a sale of a property in 1974. The other entry was an ad for Kinley Garage. I searched the ancestry website but couldn’t find anyone with the surname Kinley who owned a garage or was a mechanic. Several with the surname Kinley lived in the area but couldn’t match them to the lane. The lane was probably named after whoever owned the garage. The lane runs from St Albans Street to Abberley Park. Most houses were built in 1990 but one house dates from 1950 which will be the one mentioned in Papers Past. I quite liked the street but it is narrow with very limited parking. I walked this street on Friday when I was geocaching in the area.