Tenby Place in Avondale – In a Paramount Homes subdivision. Named on 15 June 1960. First appears in street directories in 1962. Information on date of naming in a letter sent to the City Librarian from the Town Clerk dated 20 June 1960.
A small amount of information from the library website and the street is probably named after a place in Wales.
Not much information on Papers Past. A few death notices and there were ads in the 1960s for houses. In 1962 there was an issue with flooding in the subdivision. There was one sad story as a young four year old boy who lived on this street was reported missing. The family had been at Birdlings Flat for a picnic and it was suspected that he had been swept out to sea. No body was ever found but that isn’t unusual for Birdlings Flat.
All the houses here were built in the 1960s and none stood out for me but there were some nice gardens. What I did like was a letterbox in the shape of a train. At the end of the street there is an entrance to Chisnallwood Intermediate school grounds.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 