Finlay Place in Woolston – Named after William Duncan Finlay (1871?- 1955). Finlay is listed in early 1940s street directories living at 108 Mackenzie Avenue where this street was later formed. First appears in street directories in 1950.
A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name except that the original plan was to call it Finlay Ave. This information was in Papers Past in 1948. A few death notices and several ads but not a lot of information on Papers Past. There weren’t any ads for selling sections or houses in Papers Past.
Most houses here were built in 1940s apart a few flats built in 2015. I was very surprised that there wasn’t any Housing Corp houses here as most of the houses looked like typical Housing Corp houses from the 1940s.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 