Ravenna St in Avonhead – Probably named after Ravenna, a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. First appears in street directories in 1966.
A tiny amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. Most houses were built in the 1950s and 1960s. There was also several built in the 1990s and 2000s and they looked like they were possibly what used to be called over 60s units. Papers Past had several ads in 1960 for sections in a a new subdivision. In 1957 it was described as a new street and crown lease land. There was a shop on the corner of Ravenna St and Avonhead Rd that was mentioned frequently and it just as frequently changed it’s name. In 1959 it was called Cain’s Foodmarket and in 1962 in was Winder’s Foodmarket. In 1965 it was called McLeans Foodmarket and in 1968 it was Rawstorn’s Foodmarket. By 1977 it was Ravenna Dairy. These days it is a hairdressers.
There wasn’t really anything that stood out for me in this street. A few nice gardens.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 