Saskia Lane in the suburb of Somerfield, Christchurch

Saskia Lane in Somerfield and nothing on library website. The street runs off Selwyn where 101 and 103 Selwyn St used to be and all the houses were built in the 1990s. I suspect that the street is named after a person but without a surname it is harder to find. In the 1920s the property at one of those addresses was a poultry farm but from 1940s onwards it seemed to have been a market garden. In 1984 there was a big garage sale of household items at one of the addresses.

I only walked part of the street as the footpath only goes part way along the street. The houses are mostly made from brick which was a common building material for the 1990s. It looked like it would be a pleasant street to live on.

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