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Hunt Lane in Avondale – Named after Hugh Peter Hunt. Hunt was chief engineer with the Christchurch Drainage Board 1981- 1989. The Christchurch Drainage Board owned an area of low-lying land in Avondale which they filled up with dredgings from the river so the land could be subdivided and built on. The Board named the …

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Baladin St in Avondale – First appears in street directories in 1988. A tiny amount of information from the library website. I searched but couldn’t find a reason for the name. Was possibly a surname but ancestry website couldn’t give me anyone living in New Zealand with that name. I searched cemetery databases with no …

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Culver Place in Avondale red zone – Named after Culver Cliff or Culver Down on the Isle of Wight. In a subdivision between the Avon River, west of the Bower Bridge, and the northern end of the Avondale Golf Course of a 50 acre farm formerly belonging to Stewart Clendinning Hampton (1908- 1993). All the …

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Chale Lane in Avondale red zone – Named after Chale, a village on the Isle of Wight.In a subdivision between the Avon River, west of the Bower Bridge and the northern end of the Avondale Golf Course of a 50 acre farm formerly belonging to Stewart Clendinning Hampton (1908- 1993). Developed from 1969 by Merrit-Beazley …

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Calbourne Lane in Avondale Red Zone – Named after Calbourne on the Isle of Wight. In a subdivision between the Avon River, west of the Bower Bridge, and the northern end of the Avondale Golf Course, of a 50 acre farm formerly belonging to Stewart Clendinning Hampton (1908-1993). All the streets are named after places …

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Arthur St in Upper Riccarton – formerly Toroa Road Named after Arthur William Biggs (1881-1955). Toroa Road first appears in street directories in 1955. Re-named Arthur Street in 1958. Arthur Biggs, a farrier, had premises at 347 Riccarton Road during the 1920s and 1930s. Re-named by Joseph Irvine Colligan (1910- 1965), a hairdresser and chairman …

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Suva St in Upper Riccarton – formerly Greens Lane. Green’s Lane is an early informal name mentioned in street directories running off 40b Middleton Road 1943-1948. No residents are listed. Re-named Suva Street in June 1948 when 24 streets in the Waimairi County were re-named. A small amount of information from the library website. The …

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Auburn Ave in Upper Riccarton and nothing on library website yet most houses were built in the 1940s. The street is possibly named after a place in Ireland. Many entries on Papers Past were about the water pump and water supply issues. There must have been a water tower on the street but it was …

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Renfrew St in Upper Riccarton – First appears in street directories in 1950. A tiny amount of information from the library website. It has either been named after a person or after Renfrew near Glasgow Airport. Very little information on Papers Past apart from a few death notices. The most interesting article was in 1971 …

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Tiora Place in Upper Riccarton – formerly Henley Place. Henley Place first appears in street directories in 1950. Re-named Tiora Place in 1951. A small amount of information from the library website. Not a lot of information on Papers Past. Only found two entries for Henley Place and one was about thefts from houses that …

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