Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project
I love walking and history and this project covers both interests
Kotzikas Place – Named after Kypros Kotzikas (1944-). Kotzikas is managing director of United Fisheries. First appears in street directories in 1987 A small amount of information from the library website. This is a short street in a business district in Wigram but I would have thought that it was in Middleton. Obviously the main …
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Renwick Place runs off Kinnaird Place and there was no information on the library website. It was a pleasant wee street and most houses were summerhill stone. Two houses had great little forts / tree huts for children. I know a couple who live on this street but couldn’t remember which house they live in. …
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Kinnaird Place – Named after Kinnaird, a house in Lincoln Road. Peter Duncan (1838- 1907), a blacksmith, manufacturing engineer and founder of P & D Duncan Ltd., built the house in 1880 on 5 acres of land leased from the Church of England. The property, in turn, was named after a castle near Duncan’s Brechin …
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Marylands Place in Middleton was not on the library website so I have no idea how it got the name. This is an industrial / business area so I was surprised to see three houses amongst the businesses.
Sumner Street – Formerly Bowden Street. Re-named Sumner Street in 1912 at the request of the South Christchurch Estate Company Ltd. Sumner was President of the Canterbury Association and Archbishop of Canterbury. Named after John Bird Sumner (1780-1862). A wee bit of information from the library website. This street had a mixture of houses. There …
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Harker Street – Swinchatt Street was renamed Harker Street formally by the Spreydon Road Board in 1911 although Harker Street had appeared in the Star in 1902. May be named after Thomas Henry Harker (1871-1952). Harker was a manager and also a well-known athlete and swimmer A little bit of information from the library website …
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Hinemoa Street – Developed by Maurice Buckley Ryan (1878?- 1940), a contractor.Not much information on the library website. This was a nice street with mostly weatherboard older houses in good condition. Most of them had been subdivided and had newer houses built at the back of the older houses.There were a couple of brick houses. …
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Johnson Street -Named after Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). Johnson was an English writer. 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.A small amount of information from the library website. There were rundown houses one side and City Care depot …
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Rosewarne Street – formerly Rosewarne’s Paddock. Named after Joseph Rosewarne (1829-1909). Rosewarne was a butcher of Victoria Street who died at his residence 261 Montreal Street. He owned several parcels of land in Christchurch; a butcher would have needed paddocks for stock. A reasonable amount of information from the library website. This street had a …
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Spring Grove Street – Named after the Spring Grove Estate. The property was then owned by Mrs Robert Moffett. She was probably Margaret Moffett (1860?-1916), wife of Robert Shaw Moffett (1842?-1917). A wee bit of information from the library website. A small street that looks like a continuation of Redruth Ave. Older wooden villas and …
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Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project