Highbury Place in the suburb of Avonside, Christchurch

Highbury Place in Avonside – Formerly Baxter Place. Named after George Lionel Baxter (1872-1955). Re-named Highbury Place. Named after Highbury, a place in the London Borough of Islington. Baxter, an orchardist, was living at 84 Retreat Road in 1943. The street was formed on land in between 80 and 86 Retreat Road. Baxter Place appears in street directories in 1947. Re-named Highbury Place in 1948

A small amount of information from the library website. Not much information on Papers Past apart from a few death notices. George Baxter was still living at 84 Retreat Rd when he died in 1955. He collapsed while playing billiards and died. He was aged 83. Most of the houses here were built in the 1940s and they had a state house look about them but didn’t find anything on Papers Past to prove this. None of the houses stood out for me but I did like the house which had a notice about guard chickens. The house was ordinary looking but the garden had many quirky things in it. I detoured while walking back to where I had left my car.