Lucas Lane in Hillsborough – May be named after Sarah Mabel Alderson, née Lucas, (1884-1966).Sarah Alderson was the wife of Joshua Alderson (1869-1956). The Aldersons managed the Glenmore Products Ltd., brick and tile manufacturers, 1946- 1965. First appears in street directories in 1994.
A small amount of information from the library website and I am not sure that the information is correct. I have spend ages on Papers Past and the Ancestry website and I can find no connection between Joshua Alderson and the Alderson family who managed Glenmore Brick Company. Note this company has various names over the years but they all included the Glenmore name. Joshua Alderson lived his entire life in the Sheffield and Waddington area and his Alderson family possibly came from Lancashire. William Stanley Alderson was born and married in Australia and he lived in Dunedin until the mid 1940s. The Alderson family lived in Christchurch from 1946 to 1966 and then they all went to Auckland.
This was another street that I decided not to actually walk on Saturday because it was a private lane. I changed my mind and went back today to walk it. I am so pleased that I did as there is a gorgeous house here and a brand one being built also appealed to me. Only about 13 houses here and 6 were built in the 1990s and rest were rebuilt after the earthquakes. I met two lovely women here and we had a great chat. This is how I know that some of the houses are rebuilds. The gorgeous house I thought had been built by the local builders / developers who have a reputation for building houses that have an old style look about them. I was wrong as the house was designed by the owners of the house. The husband is local but his wife is French and she apparently did most of the designing. The two women that I chatted with said it is a lovely street to live in. They also agreed with me that they wouldn’t like to live on the streets below the reservoir as they wouldn’t feel safe.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 