Thackers Quay in Woolston – Named because it is near Thacker’s Slipway and also the Heathcote River. A cul-de-sac serving 15 warehouses at 119 Connal Street. Named in 1999.
A small amount of information from the library website and it is exactly the same information that was on the council website.
Note it was actually called Thacker’s Wharf and the earliest entry I found for the wharf was in 1852 and this information was in Papers Past and on the Ancestry website. Thacker’s Wharf was named after John Eagleston Thacker who came out from Ireland on the George Seymour. He had a store in Christchurch but eventually settled in Okains Bay. As well as being a printer he was involved in shipping.
I was surprised that I hadn’t already walked this street as I have geocached in the area. There was an article about this street on 5th September and I had plans to walk this street that weekend but I ended up in hospital instead.
There is a lot more buildings than the 15 warehouses mentioned in the library website. They all have apartments above the warehouses and they actually look quite nice. I couldn’t see the one that had been occupied by the gang mentioned in the news article and the owner must have repainted it. There is now a green space behind Thackers Quay where 119 Connal Street used to be and the Thackers Quay runs off Barton St. The map from 1958 shows that there used to be a factory where the street now exists.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 