Beamsgate Road in the suburb of Halswell, Christchurch

Beamsgate Road and too new for the library website. Information from the council website – Beamsgate Road – an old flower, gift and craft supply shop that was located in Sutherlands Road for many years until c2000. It was operated by the resident owner and her husband and was well known and frequented by the local Halswell community.

Papers Past only had ads for Beamsgate Farm which was at 57 Sutherlands Rd. From the National Library of New Zealand I found that the owners of the farm were Shirley and Bevan Olsen.

The street ran between Welsh Road and Bunz Road and the houses here were built between 2020 and 2022. Footpath mostly was on both sides of the street. One of the properties was fairly large and I did wonder if it was were the original Beamsgate Farm. The houses were fairly ordinary and didn’t stand out for me.

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