Deloraine St in Somerfield – Named on 29 March 1956. [An earlier name tentatively approved but not pursued was Delamain Street.]
A tiny amount of information from the library website. There is a street in Yaldhurst with the name Delamain and the Delamain family lived in Yaldhurst. The only Deloraine that I could find was in Tasmania and it was named after a character in a poem by Sir Walter Scott. The poem was called The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Papers Past had an entry about it being a new street in 1956. The vicarage for St Nicholas Church was at 10 Deloraine St and there were several entries about it. Several death notices plus engagement notices. The street had flooding issues in 1978.
I was looking to buy a house in 1978 and remember looking at one on this street but when I walked this street I couldn’t remember which house I had looked at. The flooding issues probably put me off.
Most houses here were built in 1950s and 1960s and none of them stood out for me. I wasn’t even inspired to take photos.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 