Rue De La Mare in Parklands – Named after Ronald Cyril de la Mare (1925- 1975). De la Mare was the managing director of the Bower Egg Farm Ltd., 467 Bower Avenue. Formed post-1997.
The information from the library website is totally wrong and sent me down a weird rabbit hole. Ronald Cyril de la Mare AKA Delamare had what looked like a complicated domestic life. The Bower Egg Farm was set up in 1954 by Cyril John de la Mare from Guernsey. Cyril came to New Zealand in 1953 with his wife Joan and sons Roger and David. Roger was running the Bower Egg Farm when it went into liquidation in 1998. Cyril eventually went back to Guernsey where he died in 1975 aged 66. The electoral rolls have Cyril John de la Mare living at 467 Bower Ave with occupation as poultry farmer. As usual many of the family trees on Ancestry website were confusing. Ronald de la Mare AKA Delamare father’s name was also Cyril so many people have muddled up the two families. I found an article on Papers Past from 1968 about the Bower Egg Farm being the largest in New Zealand. The article said that Mr Delamare set up the egg farm when he emigrated to New Zealand from Germany. In the same article it mentions that he had farmed eggs in his home town of Guernsey. This shows that our reporters have always struggled with geography as they are certainly rather challenged in this department these days. The Guernsey connection explains why Rue was used in the street name. I couldn’t find the council details for the naming of the street.
The street had a footpath on both sides of the street which I like and the street is in a T shape. A very tidy and pleasant street but nothing stood out so no photos. The houses here were built in 1990 and 2015. The gardens were almost too tidy but a few had shrubs rather than just immaculate lawns. There was an entrance into Crofts Reserve here and the reserve had a playground plus a wildflower garden. I quite liked the street. Edited to say that I am an idiot as I did take a photo of this street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 