Ballantyne Ave in Upper Riccarton- Named after the Ballantyne family, of Ballantyne’s Department Store. The family of William Ballantyne (1864-1934) and his wife, Mary Jane, née Haynes, (1869?-1952), lived on a one hundred acre farm there 1896-1946. Their family home, Nydfa, was in Hansons Lane. First appears in street directories in 1952.
A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. Not a lot of information on Papers Past and the earliest entry that I found was an ad in 1952.Several houses for sale in the 1960s. Seemed to be an accident prone lot living on this street going by some of the entries.
It is a tree lined street and most houses were built in the 1950s. There are some fairly new Kainga Ora houses (state houses) at one end of the street. A company promotes student flats on the street and at least one over 60s unit was for sale. At one end there is a walkway to Riccarton Rd and at the other end it is blocked by a new cycleway. The street didn’t do a lot for me and a few houses were looking a bit rundown.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 