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Vili Place – Named after the Reverend Tumama Vili and his wife, Elisapeta. The Vilis arrived from Samoa in December 1985. Under their leadership, the Samoan Congregational Christian Church purchased land on the corner of Linwood Avenue and Dyers Road and built all the church buildings. The church was opened in June 1998. The congregation …

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Reserve Close – Named because the cul-de-sac leads to St Lukes Reserve. Developed at 66B St Johns Street. Named in 2002.A wee bit of information from the library website. I walked from the reserve onto this street. Fairly modern houses and there was one house that I wanted to take a photo of but the …

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St Judes Lane – Named to continue the street name theme begun by St Johns Street. Developed off St Lukes Street. Named in 1999.A wee bit of information from the library website. I didn’t actually manage to walk this private lane as I wasn’t comfortable doing this. Some private lanes give off a vibe of …

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St Monica Lane – Named to continue the street name theme begun by St Johns Street. In the Cavendish Grove subdivision off St Lukes Street. Named in 2012.A wee bit of information from the library website. A new subdivision and my photo is from the park like area. Brand new houses but the gardens were …

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St Lukes Street – Named to continue the street name theme begun by St Johns Street. First appears in street directories in 1981.The same wee bit of information from the library website as for the other streets I walked today. A mixture of older repaired houses and rebuilds. The rebuilds were similar to houses that …

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St Thomas Place – Named to continue the street name theme begun by St Johns Street. Developed off St Lukes Street. Named in 1997. A wee bit of information from the library website. I only managed one photo here and it just doesn’t show the scale of the houses here. The houses looked brand new …

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St Marks St – Named to continue the street name theme begun by St Johns Street. Named on 21 May 1972. First appears in street directories in 1981.A wee bit of information from the library website.This tiny street in Woolston had a big empty section at the end of it. The houses were a mixture …

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Mollymawk Place – Named “to continue a theme already established in the Brookhaven subdivision”. In a subdivision by Enterprise Homes. Named in 1999.Small amount of information on the library website. Modern houses of either tin looking weatherboard or cement fibre. I ended up chatting to a resident who told me that most of the houses …

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Ti Rakau Drive -The developer said he wanted the name Te Rakau Drive, meaning cabbage tree, but checks turned up several different meanings for “rakau”, none of which was “cabbage tree”. Named in 1995 That was interesting information from the library website. A quick google gave me the information that Ti Rakau means cabbage tree. …

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Shearwater Drive – nothing on library website about this street. Many of the streets in this area had bird names, Library website had this area as Woolston but it was closer to Ferrymead. The houses all looked new but I believe that many of them are rebuilds. Ti Rakau Reserve had an entrance on this …

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