Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project
I love walking and history and this project covers both interests
Riroriro Lane in Halswell – Riroriro is a native New Zealand bird part of the Acanthizidae bird family. Also known as grey warbler. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. A small amount of information from the council minutes about naming of the streets in this subdivision. This lane is so new that it isn’t on …
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Cabbage Close in Halswell – Cabbage Street – William “Cabbage” Wilson, was Christchurch’s first mayor. He has significant links to the Halswell area, being an owner of the quarry between 1872 and 1886. William was a politician and nurseryman. He was known as “Cabbage” because he used to wear a hat made out of cabbage. …
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Hawthorne Park in Hoon Hay. This technically isn’t a street and the houses have Sparks Rd addresses but there is a signpost with the street name on it. At least one house is an exclusive B&B
Benrogan Drive, Perks Drive and Eastman Drive in Halswell. Too new to be on library website and the roads are still only half formed. No houses yet. The land was was sold in 2020 and had a 1970s house on it. The nearby wetlands area is called Eastman Wetlands and it is possibly named after …
Shorthorn Lane in Halswell – too new for library website. Shorthorn is a cattle breed but can’t find any evidence of cattle having ever been on this land. The subdivision was described as a boutique subdivision which usually means expensive. The houses here are huge on fairly large sections and built between 2021 and 2023. …
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Rempstone Drive in Halswell – Named after Rempstone, a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England. Named because it runs alongside the Nottingham Stream. First appears in street directories in 1995. A small amount of information from the library website. Most houses were built in the 1990s but a few were …
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Empress Place in Halswell- nothing on library website yet all all the houses were built in the 1990s. Several streets in this area have names that are titles in the peerage. A couple of nice houses here and most had nice gardens. There was a footpath on only one side of the street but it …
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Thornlea Place in Halswell- First appears in street directories in 1995. A tiny amount of information from the library website. All houses here were built in the 1990s. None of the houses stood out for me but some of the gardens were lovely. It was a tree lined streets and there is an entrance to …
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Vanderbilt Place in Halswell – nothing on library website yet all the houses were built in the 1990s. The street is possibly named after the American artist Gloria Vanderbilt. The street has a footpath on both sides of the street and there were some nice gardens here. There is a really lovely reserve here which …
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Viceroy Place in Halswell – nothing on library website yet most houses were built in the 1990s. Several streets in the area are named after titles in the peerage. The footpath is on both sides of the street and there is a reserve here with a playground. There is a lamp in the middle of …
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Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project