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Fyfe Street / Fife Street. This street doesn’t exist any longer and it ran from Moorhouse Ave to Madras Street and was part of William Wilson’s land. Entries on Papers Past have both spellings and it is most likely named after Fife in Scotland as this is where William Wilson’s wife Elizabeth was from. In …

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Worcester Boulevard – Part of Worcester Street. First appears in street directories in 1993.Worcester Street – Named after the English bishopric of Worcester. One of the original streets of Christchurch named in 1850 by Captain Joseph Thomas (b. 1803?) and Edward Jollie (1825-1894). The names were taken from bishoprics listed in Burke’s Peerage. First mentioned …

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Liverpool Street – Named after Liverpool, a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England. Named in 1909. First appears in street directories in 1924.A small amount of information from the library website. Huge numbers of entries on Papers Past as it seems like every city in New Zealand had a Liverpool Street. The council when …

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Struthers Lane – Struthers Lane, named after Robert Struthers of Mason, Struthers & Co. The hardware and saddlery company owned a significant proportion of the south end of Struthers Lane and were bastions of Christchurch business.Formerly Greens Way. Re-named Struthers Lane on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named.Struthers opened a small hardware shop, …

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Nurseryman Lane and nothing on the library website as it is too new. There was an article on Stuff dated 21st June 2016 about the naming of new lanes. The information in the article about this lane was rather brief and just said that is was reference to a nursery set up in 1851 by …

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Armagh Street – Named after the Anglican bishopric of Armagh in Ireland. One of the original streets of Christchurch named in 1850 by surveyors Captain Joseph Thomas (b. 1803?) and Edward Jollie (1825-1894). The names were taken from bishoprics listed in Burke’s Peerage. First mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1852 when 1/4 acre sections …

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Armagh Courts and nothing on the library website but it is on google maps. It runs off Armagh St next to RSA building. It is just a car park these days but google maps show it as having as least 7 to 8 separate sites. I have searched and searched to find out what was …

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Hereford Street – Named after the bishopric of Hereford. Named by surveyors Captain Joseph Thomas (b. 1803?) and Edward Jollie (1825-1894). One of the original streets of Christchurch named in 1850. The names were taken from bishoprics listed in Burke’s Peerage. First mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1852 when 1/4 acre sections are advertised …

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Tramway Lane formerly Hereford Place. On Worcester Street just to the west of the old Government Buildings. It runs to the south. The modern central city tramway runs along it. A small amount of information from the library website. The earliest mention that I could find on Papers Past was in 1902 when a company …

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Press Lane and there is nothing on the library website and this is possibly because it is just a right of way yet other right of way types of streets get mentioned. Most entries on Papers Past are ads from the 1930s and 1940s. There was Press Lane Furniture Factory and it was also called …

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