Everton Road and Victoria Street. Off Bexley Road. Victoria Street was renamed Everton Road on 22 November 1932. Disappears from street directories in 1987.
Anthony Road formerly Albert Road. Off Bexley Road. Albert Road first appears in street directories in 1952. Re-named Anthony Road in 1955. Stopped when the Pacific Park subdivision was developed in the 1990s although it disappears from street directories in 1987.
These streets no longer exists and I came across these two streets when researching Birch St. Both streets were mentioned in relationship to the Employment Zone / Industrial Park that was planned for this area. I looked at Papers Past but apart from death notices and Employment Zone there wasn’t much information. I did a google search with no luck. Checked old maps of Christchurch and found the streets. Both streets were roughly where Morganwood and Wetlands Grove were developed. There were a couple of council notices that I found regarding the Burwood Express Way being deferred. The notices also mentioned the cost of buying property and that the residents whose houses would be in the path of the Expressway were getting fed up with the delays. They also felt that the council were short changing them and that the value of their properties were dropping because of the delays. They were needing to move and buy elsewhere but the delays were costing them.
There was talk of building the Burwood Expressway in the early 1980s and they were still talking about it in 1998. In the meantime homeowners were in limbo. By 2002 it sounds like they were starting to build the Burwood Expressway which was eventually called Anzac Drive.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 