Pascoe Avenue in Mairehau – formerly Shaw Avenue. Shaw Avenue first appears in street directories in 1939. Re-named Pascoe Avenue on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named.
Unusual for a cul de sac to be called an avenue as I would have expected it to be place. The council didn’t give a reason for the name Pascoe but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was named after a person.
A small amount of information from the library website. The street was renamed because there was a Shaw Avenue in New Brighton. Not a lot of information on Papers Past. Under Shaw Avenue there were sections for sale in the late 1930s plus death notices. In the 1960s there were lots of ads for selling Siamese kittens and pup puppies.
Apart from one house built in the 1960s all the houses here were built in the 1930s. Most of the houses seemed quite nice but the residents are really bad at parking.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 