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Waireka Lane in Bexley Red Zone and nothing on library website. If I hadn’t taken a photo of the sign post with the street name I wouldn’t have known that this street existed. It doesn’t show up on current maps but I eventually managed to find street view from 2007. It was a tiny lane …

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Onepu Street in Bexley Red Zone and nothing on library website. When I checked street view most of the houses looked like they were built in the 1960s but one was an art deco style house. The earliest entry that I could find on Papers Past was an ad for a section in 1960. Sewage …

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Kia Ora Street in Bexley Red Zone and nothing on library website. When I checked street view I realised that this was an older street as there had been a cute cottage that looked that it dated from 1890s. There were also at least two art deco houses. Papers Past had a few death notes …

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Kokopu Lane in Bexley Red Zone and nothing on library website. The young of Kokopu are what we know as whitebait and they are very delicious. The houses that had been here probably dated from the late 1990s but they have all been demolished. There was an article online from January 2012 about the demolition …

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Velsheda Street in the Bexley Red Zone- Named after the Velsheda, a racing yacht. In the Pacific Park subdivision. Named in 1997. A tiny amount of information from the library website. There is a street called Velsheda Road in a place called Shirley in the UK which confused me briefly. There is a wikipedia page …

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York Street – Formerly Balls Road. Named after Robert Ball (1822?-1890).Ball, his wife Jane (1825- 1887) and son Robert (b. 1854?) arrived in Lyttelton on the Mystery in 1859. Ball worked as a blacksmith and later established a coach service and blacksmith’s shop in Balls Road. He ran a coach to Opawa in January 1880, …

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Grafton St in Waltham – Formerly William Street. Named after William Barbour Wilson (1819-1897). Re-named Grafton Street. Wilson was a nurseryman, businessman and local politician. In a subdivision of Rural Section 48, land owned by William Wilson (1819-1897). William Street appears on an 1874/75 Deposit Plan. First appears in the Star in an advertisement in …

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Short St in Waltham – Formerly Elizabeth Street. Probably named after Elizabeth Wilson, née Williams (b.1836?). Re-named Short Street. Named because it is a short street leading to Te Wai Pounamu Maori Girls’ College. Elizabeth Wilson was the eldest daughter of John and Isabella Williams and wife of William Barbour Wilson (1819-1897). Wilson was a …

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Henry St in Waltham – Named after Henry Wilson. Wilson was the fourth son of William Barbour Wilson (1819-1897), nurseryman, businessman and local politician, and his wife, Elizabeth. He married Charlotte Cox of Featherston. He was in the hardware trade in Christchurch for a number of years and died in England. In a subdivision of …

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Hornbrook Street in Waltham- formerly Hornbrook Lane. Named after Major Alfred Hornbrook (1814- 1898) and his wife, Sarah Frances Anne Hornbrook, née Hewit, (1830?- 1913). Hornbrook owned Risingholme and Mrs Hornbrook ran a boarding-school at the corner of Wilsons Road and this street. Hornbrook Street is first mentioned in The Press in 1886. It is …

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