Bay View Rd in Moncks Bay – Named because this road gives a view of Moncks Bay. Formed in 1904. Bay View Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1905. First appears in street directories in 1910. Re-named Bayview Road in 1970.
A small amount of information from the library website and the street hasn’t been renamed. It is still Bay View Rd and not Bayview Rd.
The ads for sections in 1905 said it was the third subdivision of the Monck Estate and 64 sections were available. A huge amount of entries in Papers Past and it wasn’t helped by many other towns having streets with the same name including Dunedin, Napier and Nelson plus local places like Cass Bay and Charteris Bay. Lots of death notices. Several complaints about the condition of the road in the 1920s and 1930s plus gas mains issues in the 1930s. Over the years extra high tides caused flooding in the street and the flood in 1918 sounded particularly bad. There were also floods in 1930, 1936, 1941and 1947. The storm in August 1975 caused slips in this street which damaged houses and garages. I remember this storm and I was living and working in Lyttelton. I walked this street on Tuesday evening and I liked the street. There are a few modern houses but there are still a large number of houses from 1910s and 1920s. The years of the1950s and 1990s saw a large number of houses built. There was one modern house that I actually liked. At the end of the street is an entrance to Barnett Park. If it wasn’t for the fact that I prefer living close to the central city I would look at living in this area.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 