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Treffers Road – Named after Mark Ferdinand Treffers (1954-).Treffers was a swimmer who won a gold medal in the 400m individual medley event at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch. Curletts Road from Parkhouse Road to Wigram Road was re-named Treffers Road on 4 June 1974.Interesting information from the library website. This is a business …

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Frith Place in Burnside. First appears in street directories in 1976. A tiny amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find any information about how the street was named. I searched the ancestry website for anyone with the surname Frith to have lived on Memorial Ave but nothing. There were several people with …

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Warner Place in Heathcote – Named after Warner Mauger (1934-). Mauger is a builder and developer. First appears in street directories in 1987. Information supplied in 2004 by Linda Mauger, a family member, in an interview with Margaret Harper.A small amount of information from the library website and not a lot that I can add. …

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Scruttons Rd – Named after George Scrutton (d. 1874). Scrutton farmed on Scrutton’s Road in the Heathcote Valley. Scrutton’s Road first appears in the Star in 1877 in a report of a meeting of the Heathcote Road Board. First appears in street directories in 1892. Information supplied in 2009 by Scrutton’s great-grandson, Stuart Vogel, in …

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Mauger Drive – Named after Warner Mauger (1934-). Mauger is a builder and property developer. First appears in street directories in 1980. Information supplied in 2004 by Linda Mauger in an interview with Margaret Harper. A small amount of information on the library website and not a lot that I can add. Warner is originally …

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Nova Place – formerly York Street. A report in the Star in 1880 of a meeting of the City Council says York Street has been “channelled, formed and shingled”. First appears in street directories in 1883. Re-named Nova Place in 1918. A small amount of information from the library website and the renaming is far …

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Horatio Street -Named after Horatio Henwood (1833-1919). Henwood was a carpenter of Antigua Street, Christchurch. He built the first railway station in Christchurch. Horatio Street was owned by him in 1874.This road has now been closed because it is the on the site of where the new sports venue will be built.

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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