Colwyn Street in the suburb of Bryndwr, Christchurch

Colwyn Street in Bryndwr – Named after Colwyn Bay, a town, community and seaside resort in Conwy County Borough on the north coast of Wales, overlooking the Irish Sea. Colwyn Bay was a favourite place to holiday for Frederick Charles Williams (1887- 1963) and his family. He owned land in Brookside Terrace where he grew tomatoes commercially. He developed Colwyn Street to give access to the rear of his property. Named in 1955. Information

supplied in 2015 by Mason Williams, great-grandson of Fred Williams. “New streets in Christchurch”, The Press, 28 June 1955, p 6

A reasonable amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street.

Found the same information on Papers Past about new streets. In 1958 there was an ad for the tender for extension of the street. In 1959 there was at least one objection to the land where the road extension was planned being rezoned as residential as they wanted it to be zoned commercial. Same year there was a special order allowing the road extension. In the 1960s and 1970s the Vintage Car Club had club rooms on this street. Aorangi School was on this street until it closed in 2010 but not a lot of information on Papers Past about the school. This explains the big empty section on the street. The street runs off Aorangi Rd and at the other end there is a walkway through to Wairakei Rd. This end of the street was taken up by Elmswood Retirement Home. Most houses were built in the 1950s and 1960s with a few ugly modern places. None of the houses stood out as they were typical style for the era except for one house. I would loved to have had a better look at it or managed to get photos as it had a lovely garden plus a gazebo. The house itself was ordinary but the garden made it outstanding. The owners had named it Caithness Cottage. I had used the walkway from Maelor Place to get to this street.