Brook Street in the suburb of Bexley Red Zone, Christchurch

Brook Street in Bexley Red Zone – First appears in street directories in 1914. A tiny amount of information from the library website.

I found a reasonable amount of information on Papers Past but probably missed a lot of information. There were a lot of streets with the same name in New Zealand. Lots of death notices and the saddest was a child who drowned in the nearby river. There were photos of the street in 1929 after flooding in the street. Sections were available in the 1950s. There was a carpet factory on the corner of Brook St and Bexley Rd. The factory opposed rezoning of the land to residential and in 1957 the application for extensions to the factory were declined. The factory was called Tattersfield Ltd until it was taken over by Feltex in 1970.

This was another street which had the end of it chopped off when the Burwood Expressway / Anzac Drive was built. When I looked at street view from 2007 I was curious about what the huge building at the Anzac Drive end was and I know know that it was the carpet factory. Most houses in street view looked like they were from the 1960s and 1970s but a couple had a 1920s look about them. Obviously there are no longer any houses here.