Menlo Tce in Mt Pleasant – formerly part of St Andrews Hill Road. Named after Menlo in Galway, Ireland. Named by Walter Edward de Thier (1926- 2003). His mother lived in Menlo before emigrating to New Zealand. First appears in street directories in 1939.
A small amount of information from the library website and I don’t think that the information is correct. I checked various old maps none of them showed this tiny street as being part of St Andrews Hill Road. Walter Edward de Thier also lived in North Canterbury plus going by his DOB he would have been 13 years old when he named the street. The street is more likely to have been named after Walter Charles de Thier (1883 – 1973) who lived in this area and owned land here. I also couldn’t find a link to Ireland for either de Thier family. Walter de Thier ( 1883 – 1973) wrote a book called Sumner to Ferrymead and as it is available at the library I will be borrowing it. The library website said they got their information from this book.
Not much information on Papers Past apart from a few death notices and a few ads. Only 8 houses here and at least three are from the 1930s but I couldn’t tell as all the houses looked modern.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 