Olds Place in Woolston – Named after William Ernest Olds (1894-1968). Formed as a new private street at the site of the then new fire station in Charlesworth Street. The Metropolitan Fire Board asked for the name to recognise the long association of Councillor Olds with fire protection. Olds was a city councillor 1956-1968. Named in 1960.
A small amount of information from the library website. William Olds was born in Oamaru but moved to Christchurch and went to school in Christchurch.
Not much information on Papers Past and there are a couple of entries in 1984 and 1985 about work expected to start on the new fire training building. In 1986 there were ads for the sale of new ownership flats in the street. There are only a few houses in the street and all bar one were built in the 1980s. The valuation website said that No 1 Olds Place was built in 1940 yet there is an ad for No 1 Olds Place as being a new house for sale in 1986. I looked at google maps and I suspect that they have renumbered the houses here and No 1 Olds Place probably used to have a Charlesworth address. The house next to it matches the description that was in the 1986 for sale ad. I now know what the tower is that I see if I have been walking in Charlesworth Reserve.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 