Mervyn Drive in Avondale – formerly Mervyn Street. Named after Mervyn John Horne (1924- 1983)Horne was secretary of the Christchurch Drainage Board 1970- 1983. The Christchurch Drainage Board owned an area of low-lying land in Avondale which they filled up with dredgings from the river so the land could be subdivided and built on. The Board named the streets formed there. Named on 21 November 1984. Mervyn Street first appears in street directories in 1987. Becomes Mervyn Drive in 1991. Information supplied in 2007 by Paul Baldwin, Christchurch City Council in an interview with Margaret Harper.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. The few houses that are left on this street were mostly built in the 1980s and 1990s. At least 75% of the houses have been demolished on this street and the land is in the red zone. When I was walking along I came to a park called Avondale Park and I thought to myself that it would be a great place to hide a cache. I then realised that I have been to the park before to find a cache that is hidden here.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 