Falsgrave St in Waltham – Probably named after Falsgrave in North Yorkshire. According to the minutes of the Sydenham Borough Council the formation and metalling of this street was completed by 1880. First mentioned in The Press in 1880 in a report of a meeting of the Sydenham Borough Council. First appears in street directories in 1887.
A small amount of information from the library website. There was a huge amount of information on Papers Past. In 1880 the street was described as a private street. In 1881 there was a petition for the forming of the street and then in 1899 the was a report from the Works Committee to say that the street had never been properly constructed or legally made a public road. From 1880s there was a coal depot on this street and there were a huge number ads for the depot. By the 1970s the coal depot site was leased by the Gas Company. The Gas Company building was probably demolished 1982 but I thought that this had happened a lot later than this.
Lots of birth and death notices. There were lots of entries in 1900 about the sanitary condition of the gravel pits and refuse heaps. There was a clay pit that mentioned as creating a stench. Coal dust from the coal depot created a nuisance for the residents. The railway crossing seemed to be have been the scene of many accidents including at least one death. Drainage issues were frequently a problem between stagnant water in Jacksons Creek and flooding in the street. The Tramway company had car sheds here and they were also known as tram sheds. Both canterburystories.nz and discoverywall.nz have photos of the tram sheds and the gasworks. The Christchurch Metropolitan Pipe Band had a new building opened here in 1974. Frequent entries about parking issues when then were games at Lancaster Park.
The street only has businesses here and some of the building are fairly new. I compared the current street view to street view from 2012.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 