Kingsford St in Burwood Red Zone – Kingloch Street and King Street were amalgamated to form Kingsford Street. Named after Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897-1935). In 1895 the Avon Road Board was asked to metal a further portion of King Street, Windsor. King Street first appears in street directories in 1907, running from New Brighton Road to Mundys Road. Kingloch Street first appears in street directories in 1913, running from New Brighton Road to Alice Street. The two streets were amalgamated and renamed Kingsford Street by the Waimairi County Council on 8 February 1933 when the problem of duplicate names was addressed with a number of streets. Kingsford Smith was Australia’s greatest pioneer aviator. He and his co-pilot, Charles Ulm had made the first trans Tasman flight from Sydney to Christchurch on 10 September 1928. Begins the aviation theme of street names in the area.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Under the Kingloch name it was mostly death notices on Papers Past as well as lots of ads for produce including chickens, fruit and vegetables. Under King St it was mostly death notices. The article about the name changes was in 1932 when several streets had the names changed. In 1938 a man was fined for allowing his cattle to graze on the street. In 1951 there was talk about changing the name so that it included Queen rather than King. In 1956 the market gardens in the area were devastated by a big storm. In 1973 residents objected to a building at 34 Kingsford St being used for manufacturing purposes. The residents seemed to be an accident prone lot but this is possibly because they were close to a main road.
I walked this street in January last year and there are obviously no longer any houses here as it is in the red zone. I looked at 2007 on street view and most of the houses looked like brick houses from the 1950s and 1960s. Street view from 2012 showed a few houses still standing and the road was a mess.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 