Judge St in Woolston – First mentioned in The Press in 1909 in a report of a meeting of the Woolston Borough Council. First appears in street directories in 1912.
A small amount of information from the library website and I suspect that this street is named after a person. There were at least two or three families with this surname who lived more or less in the area but I couldn’t narrow them down to the exact spot.
A reasonable amount of information on Papers Past and the earliest articles were in 1909 and they were about the Railways Dept refusing a crossing across the railway lines for pedestrians. The crossing was obviously eventually approved as in 1980 the Railway dept built a fence to stop people from using the crossing. As the Opawa Railway Station was no longer in use there was no need for a pedestrian crossing across the railway lines. Many residents in the area protested about closing off the crossing and they were still arguing about it in 1988. In 1920 there was a large property for sale that belonged to the late Dr Titheridge and it was over 3 acres in size. There was another large property that was formerly a tennis court that was for sale in 1959. There was flooding issues in 1942.
The oldest house is dated from 1910 and there are several houses from 1920s and 1930s. Most are in good condition with nice gardens but it was impossible to get photos of the nice houses. There was one older house that looked like it is occupied by a hoarder and it was in a terrible state.
When I walked this street I could remember the pedestrian railway crossing to the Opawa Railway Station and I would have caught the train home to Lyttelton after visiting friends in this area. These days there is a short walkway that leads to Richardson Tce.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 