Campana Lane in St Albans – The Riach family owned the Campana Hardy Plan Nursery for eighty years before selling the land to Mike Greer Homes in 2014. Named in 2016. Mike Greer homes development of 6 plots off 84 Tomes Street.
A small amount of information from the update library website. It was actually developed at 84 Tomes Road.
Managed to get information from Papers Past and the ancestry website. For the street it was mostly just ads on Papers Past. I got a reasonable amount of information about the owner of 84 Tomes Road once I sorted out the correct member of the Riach family. There were two men with the name Douglas Riach but eventually found Desmond Douglas Riach. In 1955 Desmond Riach had returned from Britain after being a student gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. He had received high marks. Before his trip to Britain he had worked for the Reserves Dept of the Christchurch Council. He was one of the judges for the Papanui Beautifying Society. Desmond and his family lived at 84 Tomes Rd and he was described as a nurseryman. His parents lived next door at 94 Tomes Rd and his father was described as a dairyman. Desmond died in Oxford in 2021 and there was an obituary for him in the NZ Garden Journal. In 2024 his collection of Botanical Book Collection was auctioned off.
There are only 6 houses here built in 2017 and it wasn’t possible to walk this street as it had a locked gate blocking it. This is the first time that I have come across something like this.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 