Gainsborough St in Hoon Hay – One of the first streets to be developed in the Hoon Hay area. Families lived in pioneering conditions in small baches while building their own houses in their
spare time. First appears in street directories in 1955. Further information “Brave new life in the suburbs”, The Press, 8 May 1993
A small amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find the article from 1993.
Not many entries on Papers Past apart from birth and death notices plus a few engagement notices. There was mention of it being a new subdivision in 1952 and it included a map of the subdivision. There were flooding problems in 1977 where the residents blamed the hill subdivision for silting up their drains.
The street was possibly named after Gainsborough in the UK. I have hidden a puzzle cache in the park here using details of a painting by Thomas Gainsborough.
None of the houses stood out for me but it looked like a pleasant street. Apart from the park the feature that I liked best was a tree.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 