Palmside Street in Somerfield – Named after the Palmside Station. One of a number of streets named after rivers and sheep stations in North Canterbury. First appears in street directories in 1962.
A small amount of information from the library website and I walked this street in August this year.
Not much information on Papers Past. It was named as a new street in 1959 and in 1961 there were sections available. In 1964 when there was a grass fire on the street one of the firemen managed to fall off the fire engine. The saddest story was in 1969 when a young girl died after falling off her horse.
Most houses here were built in 1960s and none of them stood out for me. The street runs from Rose St and then on a slight bend it becomes another street. It is confusing when streets do this. There is a fairly new cycleway here. Edited to say that I have just found out that the cycleway is called Nor’West Arc Cycleway.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 