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Roy Place in Harewood and here is nothing on the library website or anywhere else about this street. It is on google maps and there is a signpost saying Roy Place. I can’t find out any information about it. It runs off Orchard Rd and circles around the Antarctic Centre.

Firth 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 Firth to have lived on Memorial Ave but nothing. There were several people with …

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Memorial Ave – An extension of Fendalton Road. Burnside Road. Fendall Town Road was cut through Rural Section 18, 50 acres in Fendall Town purchased by W. C. Fendall. First mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1857. Fendalton Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1864 and first appears in street directories in 1894. …

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Lothian Street in Ilam. Named after East and West Lothian in Edinburgh. Named to continue the Scottish theme of street names in Burnside. First appears in street directories in 1900 running through to Tay Street (later part of Hamilton Avenue. A small amount of information from the library website. The street runs off Memorial Ave …

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Waygreen Ave in New Brighton / Red Zone. This street wasn’t on the library website and I couldn’t find a reason for the name. The street is mentioned in the media and the are photos of the houses on UC QuakeStudies. It looks like most of the houses were built in the 1990s so they …

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Pennyburn Place in New Brighton / Red Zone. Name approved in 1996 but not used until 2000. A tiny amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find any information about the reason for the name. The developers were Rookwood Holdings which was owned by the late Warner Mauger and he had a daughter …

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Cerbera Close in New Brighton / Red Zone – Named after the TVR Cerbera Speed 12, a high performance concept car designed by TVR in 1997 Named in 2000. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to this. The area was developed by Rookwood Holdings which is …

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Chimera Crescent in New Brighton / Red Zone- Named after the TVR Chimaera, a two-seater convertible sports car manufactured by TVR 1992- 2003. Name approved in 1996 but not used until 2000A small amount of information from the library website. Nothing that I can really add as this area was developed by Rookwood Holdings which …

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Atlantis St in New Brighton / Red Zone. There was no mention of this street on the library website yet the houses would have been built in the 1990s and the street is mentioned in the council minutes of Sept 2000 where they talked about extending the street to include Barkers Rd. When I walked …

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Barkers Lane in New Brighton / Red Zone. Barker’s Road and Barkers Road. Named after Enoch Barker (1830-1892) and his brother, John George Barker (1840-1917). Enoch Barker trained as a gardener at Chatsworth, England, the Duke of Devonshire’s house. After emigrating to Canterbury, he was appointed the first Government gardener in 1860 and planted many …

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