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The Zig Zag in the suburb of Clifton, Christchurch

The Zig Zag in Clifton Bay / Clifton Hill. Nothing on the library website but it is a track but the library website does have other tracks on it. The track is very short and runs off Aranoni Track. There are three properties here and one was built in 2000. It was impossible to see …

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Tuawera Terrace in the suburb of Clifton, Christchurch

Tuawera Tce in Clifton Bay / Clifton Hill- Formerly Victoria Terrace. Named after HM Queen Victoria (1819- 1901). Re-named Tuawera Terrace. Tuawera is the name of the Cave Rock at Sumner. Victoria Terrace is first mentioned in The Press in 1926. First appears in street directories in 1940. Re-named Tuawera Terrace on 1 September 1948 …

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Kinsey Terrace in the suburb of Clifton, Christchurch

Kinsey Tce in Clifton Bay / Clifton Hill – Formerly Alexandra Terrace. Named after HM Queen Alexandra (1844- 1925), consort of Edward VII. Re-named Kinsey Terrace. Named after Sir Joseph Kinsey (1852-1936). Alexandra Terrace first appears in street directories in 1941. Re-named Kinsey Terrace on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named. Kinsey was …

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Van Asch Street in the suburb of Sumner, Christchurch

Van Asch St – formerly Queen Street. Named after Gerritt van Asch (1836-1908). Queen Street first appears in street directories in 1914. Re-named van Asch Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named. Van Asch was the first principal of the School for the Deaf in 1880.A small amount of information from the …

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Whitewash Head Road in the suburbs of Scarborough and Sumner, Christchurch

Whitewash Head Rd – Named because the droppings from the seabirds have made the cliffs white. The need for a road to Whitewash Head was discussed by the Sumner Borough Council in 1901. First appears in street directories in 1950.A small amount of information from the library website. If searching Papers Past with the words …

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Searidge Lane in the suburb of Scarborough, Christchurch

Searidge Lane in Scarborough – formerly Pearson Lane. Pearson Lane first appears in street directories in 1993. Re-named Searidge Lane in 1995.A tiny amount of information from the library website. Searidge is a fairly obvious considering the lane sits above the sea near Whitewash Head. It didn’t keep the name Pearson for very long and …

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Paisley Street in the suburb of Sumner, Christchurch

Paisley St in Sumner – formerly Parke Street. Parke Street is first mentioned in The Press in 1904. First appears in street directories in 1927. Re-named Paisley Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named. A small amount of information from the library website. There were several Parke Streets in Christchurch so that …

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Nayland Street in the suburb of Sumner, Christchurch

Nayland St – Named after Stokeby-Nayland, in south Suffolk, England. Nayland Street was the original road to Lyttelton. One of the Sumner street names connected with the Wakefield family. One of Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s sisters was married to the Rev. C. M. Torlesse, vicar of Stoke-by Nayland. Nayland Street is first mentioned in The Press …

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Menzies Street in the suburb of Sumner, Christchurch

Menzies Street in Sumner – Formerly Euston Street. Named after Euston Road in the London borough of Camden. Re-named Menzies Street. Named after John Francis Menzies (1881-1954) Euston Street is listed on the original 1874 plan of the Town of Wakefield. Land in Euston Street in the Township of Wakefield, Sumner Bay is advertised for …

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Sumnervale Drive in the suburb of Sumner, Christchurch

Sumnervale Drive in Sumner and there is nothing about this street on the library website. The street would have been developed from a farm called Sumnervale Estate. The ownership of this farm I am not sure about without checking land registrar. Gordon Ogilvie in his book Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills …

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