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Curries Rd in Hillsborough and Woolston – formerly Gadds Road and Station Road. Formerly Station Road. Becomes Station Road and Gadds Road. Named after Elijah Gadd (1832?-1888). Re-named Curries Road. Named after Mrs Mary Currie, a resident in Station Road from 1892. Station Road first appears in street directories in 1892. From 1905-1928 it is …

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Kennedy Place in Hillsborough – formerly Kennedy Crescent. Kennedy Crescent first appears in street directories 1955. The southern section was re-named Kennedy Place and the central unformed section was “stopped” on 24 April 1963. The northern section became part of Grange Street. Jarden Place was originally suggested as a name for the northern section. Information …

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Ribbonwood Place in Hillsborough and nothing on the library website. It is surprising that there is nothing on the library site as this street was developed in 1970 plus there is a house here dating from 1960. There are several houses here dating from 2024 and they are on the corner by Opawa Rd. I …

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Foundry Drive in Hillsborough and nothing on library website. Nothing on the council website about the naming of this street. Luckily a bit of local knowledge helped me here and the street is named after Andersons Foundry that used to be at 38 Curries Rd. The business closed in the late 1980s and their equipment …

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Nuttall Drive in Hillsborough and nothing on either new or old library website. I couldn’t find out anything about this street and I searched council minutes, Papers Past and Ancestry. I have come up with a theory about the naming of Nuttall Drive and Desi Place but can’t prove it. I searched for details of …

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Desi Place – nothing on new or old library website. I couldn’t find out anything about this street. I checked council minutes but that only gave me information about restricting parking on the street. I have come up with a theory about the name of the street but couldn’t find any proof. The street runs …

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Ketton Place in St Albans – Named after Ketton, a village and civil parish in Rutland in the East Midlands of England. Named because it is near Rutland Street. First appears in street directories in 1970. A small amount of information on the library website. Most entries were ads for the sale of houses and …

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Kenwyn Ave in St Albans – Named after Ken and Winston Nicholls, two sons of the developer. Formed on 5 acres of land off Mays Road owned by Percy Stanley Nicholls (d. 1974), a land agent.A Papanui war memorial street. First appears in street directories in 1950. Information supplied in 2006 by Eileen Thomson in …

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Mary Carpenter Avenue in Yaldhurst and Hei Hei and it is too new for the library website. Information from the council website – The road names have been chosen in accordance with the theme of Womens Suffrage in the 125th year of celebration of women being granted voting rights. The reason for this theme is …

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Hunia Place in Yaldhurst and too new for the library website. Information from the council website – Huhana (Susan) Enright nee Hunia (1902-1981) is the Great, Great Grandmother of the developer, and is from Pawarenga in the Hokianga (Far North). Susie was born on 21 March 1902, of the Te Uri o Tai hapu and …

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