Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project
I love walking and history and this project covers both interests
Quamby Place – Named after the brook which ran beside the Tasmanian home of Thomas Gregory Russell (1850-1935). Russell came to Christchurch to live on five acres of land in the 1870s, naming his property, Quamby. A son was born to the Russells at Quamby in 1892. The property was sold to the McLean Institute …
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Wood Lane formerly Park Lane -Named after William Derisley Wood (1824- 1904). Park Lane is first mentioned in The Press in 1884 in a report of a meeting of the Riccarton Borough Council. First appears in street directories in 1900. Re-named Wood Lane in June 1948 when 24 streets in the Waimairi County were re-named. …
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Heathfield Ave formerly Heathfield Road -Named after Heathfield, the property of William Cuddon (1834-1924). Land belonging to Cuddon, a brewer and maltster, was sub-divided into 32 sections in 1913 and auctioned. A house was built there for Geoffrey Ernest Fitzhardinge Kingscote (1889?-1949), an accountant, and his wife, Florence Agnes Placida Kingscote, née Humphries, (1889-1975), ready …
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Ridgeway Place Nothing on library website – I have no idea where I got the following information – Ridgeway lies just south of the South Yorkshire border and is 5 miles south east of Sheffield. Ridgeway is a self-contained village around 700 years old and would once have been part of Sherwood Forrest. Note there …
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Cecil Wood Way – Named after Cecil Walter Wood (1878-1947). Wood was an architect responsible for a number of the houses on Richmond Hill. First appears in street directories in 1981. A small amount of information from the library website and I can’t add anything to it. A tiny street with 3 or 4 houses …
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Elgin Street – Formerly part of Fifth Street. The streets south of, and parallel to, Moorhouse Avenue were named in numerical order. Re-named Bowen Street. Probably named after Sir Charles Christopher Bowen (1830- 1917). Re-named Elgin Street. The section of Fifth Street west of Colombo Street through to Durham Street was re-named Bowen Street in …
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Antrim Street -Named after County Antrim, one of six counties forming Northern Ireland. Named in 1927 at the request of the estate of W. Walls, the owner of the land subdivided to form the street. A small amount of information from the library website. I am not sure why it is called Antrim as the …
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Milton Street – Cowper Street was incorporated into Milton Street. Appears as Restell’s Road on an 1879 map. Named after John Pain Restell (1825-1885) who owned a farm there which was subdivided in the late 1870s. Milton Street was named after John Milton (1607- 1674); Cowper Street after William Cowper (1731-1768). One of the “poets …
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Buchan Street – Named after John Buchan (1875- 1940). Queen Street first appears in street directories in 1887. Re-named Buchan Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were renamed. Buchan was a novelist, publisher and politician. Continues the theme of “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of …
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Browning Street – Formerly Lytton Street. Named after Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873). Re-named Browning Street. Named after Robert Browning (1812-1889). Lytton was an author. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. Re-named Browning Street on 11 …
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Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project