Liggins St in Burwood Red Zone – Formerly Alfred Street. Named after HRH Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg Gotha (1844-1900). Re-named Liggins Street. Named after and by Joseph Liggins (1888- 1951) Alfred Street first appears in street directories in 1907. One of three streets named after Queen Victoria’s family. Prince Alfred was the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Re-named Liggins Street by the Waimairi County Council on 8 February 1933. There is an Alfred Street in the central city. Liggins was a poultry farmer of 205 Queensbury Street, Burwood. He established the Canterbury Egg Farm and bred white leghorns. He was also a chairman of the Waimairi County Council. First appears in street directories in 1934.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Papers Past had so many entries for Alfred St as it was a very common street name that it was impossible to search. I narrowed my search to Alfred St Burwood and only found a couple of ads in 1921 for the sale of sections. In 1954 there were houses and sections for sale and that would possibly fit in with Joseph Liggins’s death in 1951. In the 1970s residents were concerned about flooding issues. I did find a name that I knew in an engagement notice in 1972.
I actually walked this street in January last year and there are obviously no longer any houses here. I checked google maps for street view and the street view for 2012 shows what a mess the street was after the earthquakes. Street view from 2007 show a street with houses that mostly looked like 1950s and 1960s styles. There was one interesting art deco house plus a house that looked like an older cottage.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 