Dawe Street in the suburb of Mairehau, Christchurch

Dawe Street in Mairehau – Developed on farmland previously owned by Arthur William Emmett (d. 1948) and sold after his death. Part of the land was bought by the government for a state housing area “laid out on modern town-planning lines”. It was referred to as Emmetts Block. Named on 24 June 1948. First appears in street directories in 1950

A small amount of information from the library website. This street was probably named after a person. There was only one entry on Papers Past and it was from the residents requesting a phone box for the corner of Dawe St and Akaroa St. This request was declined. There are only four houses here built in 2000. I was surprised that they weren’t social housing as they looked a bit like pensioner cottages. On the other side of the street it looked like a hoarder’s house but it was actually the backyard of a house on Skipton St. Weirdly their letterbox is on Dawe St.

I didn’t particularly like this street and it is probably because of the hoarder’s house plus there were cars parked blocking the footpath. I think that I did take a photo of the cars blocking the street but attributed it to the wrong street.