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Pony Lane and Stable Court Lane. Neither lane is mentioned on the library website and both lanes have houses dating from 1980s and 1990s. I didn’t walk these lanes as they were clearly marked private. Stable Court Lane curves around until it almost meets up with Pony Lane. My best guess for the names of …

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Domain Tce – formerly Mill Road. Named Domain Terrace because it runs along the north boundary of the Spreydon Domain. Mill Road first appears in street directories in 1902. Re-named Domain Terrace which is first mentioned in The Press in 1915. A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I found the same article …

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Clent Lane – Named after Clent, a village in north Worcestershire. The Lyttelton family seat is Hagley Hall in Worcestershire. Several streets in this area have names associated with the Lyttelton family because they were formed on Rural Section 76, 700 acres on the “Lower Lincoln Road, Heathcote Bridge” purchased by Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl …

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Cobham Street – Named after a Viscountcy in the Peerage of Great Britain. Each Viscount Cobham holds the subsidiary title of Baron Lyttelton Several streets in this area have names associated with the Lyttelton family because they were formed on Rural Section 76, 700 acres on the “Lower Lincoln Road, Heathcote Bridge” purchased by Frederick …

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Rosebery Street – Named after Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929). The earl was British Foreign Secretary 1886 and 1892-1895 and British Prime Minister for one year and 109 days 1894-1895. Land for sale in the “Rosebery Street subdivision” is advertised in The Press in 1901. First appears in street directories in …

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Somers Place – Probably named after Thomas Somers Cocks (1815-1899). Cocks was the banker to John Robert Godley and also to the Canterbury Association. First appears in street directories in 1943. A small amount of information from the library website and I believe that it is incorrect. Papers Past had nothing on their website about …

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Sugden Street – Probably named after the Sugden family In 1947 Frank Sugden (1894- 1979), a poultry farmer, and Frances Alice Sugden (1924- 1995), a spinster, are living at 77 Simeon Street; John William Sugden (1888?-1951), a shop fitter, is living at 143 Simeon Street. Frances Sugden married Gordon Frederick Beattie in 1948. First appears …

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Charity Lane and it isn’t mentioned on the library website. Going by the QV website all the houses are from the 1970s. Yesterday I totally missed this lane that runs off Domain Tce so I had to google it and I can see how I missed it. It just looks like a private driveway and …

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Bredon Lane – Named after Bredon, a village in Worcestershire. The Lyttelton family seat is Hagley Hall in Worcestershire. Several streets in this area have names associated with the Lyttelton family because they were formed on Rural Section 76, 700 acres on the “Lower Lincoln Road, Heathcote Bridge” purchased by Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer …

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Hennessy Place – Named after Patrick Hennessy (1869?-1959). Hennessy, a platelayer with the Christchurch Tramway Board and later a market gardener, lived at 155 Lyttelton Street. He gave a large area of land there for the building of pensioners’ flats. Named in 1960. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing to …

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