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Crusader Lane – Named after the Crusaders’ rugby team. Developed at 26 Churchill Street. Named in 1999.A wee bit of information from the library website. This is a tiny street near Barbadoes St and it wasn’t possible to actually walk it. Lots of flats crowded onto a section and I wouldn’t like to live here …

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Coventry Street – Formerly Chapel Street. There is no church listed there in street directories. Re-named Coventry Street. Named after the English cathedral city. This street was formed on the site of the Ferry Road Nursery belonging to William Barbour Wilson (1819-1897). Formed when the nursery land was subdivided in 1877. Chapel Street is mentioned …

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Conference Street – Named to commemorate the first general conference of the Methodist Church in New Zealand held in Christchurch in 1874. Its formation was discussed by the Municipal Council and reported in the Star in 1875. Appears in street directories as early as 1878. Not recognised as a public street by the Christchurch City …

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Beveridge Street – Formerly Aldred Street. Named after the Rev. John Aldred (1818-1894). Re-named Beveridge Street. Named after Baron William Henry Beveridge (1879- 1963) In 1857 Aldred moved to Christchurch from Lyttelton and built his home in Durham Street North, near where he later developed Aldred Street as a private street. He was the first …

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Barbadoes Street – Named after an Anglican colonial bishopric, Barbados, in the West Indies. 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.[Spelling is as on the original plan of Christchurch drawn up …

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Antigua Street – Named after Antigua, a colonial bishopric, Antigua in the West Indies. The section of the street south of Moorhouse Avenue was formerly named Windmill Road. Named after the flourmill erected in 1856 by William Derisley Wood (1824-1904). It was on the site of the Canterbury Brewery which was demolished following the earthquakes …

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Truro St in Sumner and there was nothing on the library website for this street. This surprised me as it is an old street. There were sections for sale as early as 1888 and they seemed to be part of something called Johnstone Township. As Truro is a town in Cornwall I expect that is …

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Stoke Street – Named after Stoke-by Nayland, in south Suffolk, England. 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. Interesting information on the library website. Nayland St is nearby but I didn’t walk this one …

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Raekura Place – Designed by Anna Holmes “Nancy” Northcroft (1913-1980), town planner, and architects Cowie and McGregor. Developed by Fred Blogg in 1971. Te Rai Kura means: redcliffs. No wonder this street had newer looking houses on it going by the information on the library website. Most were flats with houses at cliff end of …

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Celia Street – Named after Cecilia O’Malley, née Boyle, (1859?-1923). She was known as Celia. Cecilia Boyle, a servant, came to New Zealand in 1877 and married Peter O’Malley (1853?-1920), a contractor and landowner of Redcliffs, at the Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament in 1880. The O’Malleys lived at Okuti Valley, Little River after …

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