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Kinnaird Place in the suburb of Hillmorton, Christchurch

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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Sumner Street in the suburb of Spreydon, Christchurch

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 in the suburb of Spreydon, Christchurch

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 in the suburb of Spreydon, Christchurch

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 in the suburb of Sydenham, Christchurch

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 in the suburb of Spreydon, Christchurch

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 in the suburb of Spreydon, Christchurch

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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Barrowclough Street in the suburb of Hoon Hay, Christchurch

Barrowclough Street -Named after Harold Eric Barrowclough (1894-1972) – Barrowclough was a military leader, lawyer and chief justice to the Bench. In a 145-acre housing subdivision planned by the housing division of the Ministry of Works. The land was purchased from the Church Property Trustees and the Loughnan estate. In 1968 the street names sub-committee …

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Coppell Place in the suburb of Hillmorton, Christchurch

There was nothing on the library website for Coppell Place in Hillmorton. Some websites have it in Hoon Hay but I would have it in Hillmorton as the shops here are called the Hillmorton Shops. I checked Papers Past to see if I could find out anything but nothing. There was a Captain Coppell who …

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