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Thorrington Lane in Cashmere and no information on the library website. It obviously got the name because it runs off Thorrington Road. It looks like the lane was developed at No 3 Thorrington Rd which would make sense. The house was originally owned by a Campbell family who seemed to have lived there for many …

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Thorrington Road in Cashmere – Underhill Road/Street was incorporated into Thorrington Road.Named after Thorrington, a house built on the banks of the Heathcote River, near the Cashmere Hills.Thorrington was the home of an estate agent, Charles Clark (1824-1906), who arrived in Christchurch in 1856. He was living at Thorrington at the time of his marriage …

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Woodbridge Road in Cashmere – First mentioned in The Press in 1904 when Thorrington, “one of the oldest estates in the vicinity of Christchurch” was “disposed of in lots”. First appears in street directories in 1908. A small amount of information from the library website. Papers Past had several birth and death notices. There were …

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Overdale Drive in Cashmere – Named after Overdale in Yorkshire. The name was suggested by Bruce Carey, a long serving committee member and also chairman of the Rhodes Home board. The Rhodes family had emigrated from southern Yorkshire. Formed on a subdivision of the horse-paddock slope in front of the Rhodes Memorial Convalescent Home in …

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St Vincent Tce in Cashmere – Named after HMS St Vincent, a naval training school in Gosport, Hampshire.Named during World War II by John Glasgow Taylor, a builder. His son, Sub Lieutenant John Charles Taylor (1920?-1943), had trained at HMS St Vincent, the Royal Navy’s training ship for young sailors at Gosport, Hampshire and was …

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Sloan Tce in Cashmere – Part of Hunter Terace (south)Probably named after Patrick Bernard Sloan (1887?-1965). In 1936 Sloan, a carpenter, is listed in street directories as living at 139 Western (later Waimea) Terrace where this street was later formed. The southern part of Hunter Terrace was named Sloan Terrace in 1961 after Thorrington School …

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Remuera Ave in Cashmere – Remuera Road first appears in street directories in 1955. Becomes Remuera Avenue in 1964. A tiny amount of information from the library website. Most entries on Papers Past were ads for selling sections or houses. There were 27 sections available in 1957 and most houses here were built in 1950s …

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Purau Tce in Cashmere – Named after Purau, the estate of the Rhodes family on Banks Peninsula. The Rhodes Memorial Convalescent Home was built in 1886 with help from money contributed by the sons of Robert Heaton Rhodes (1815-1885). The street was formed on a subdivision of land belonging to the Home in 1952. First …

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Nutfield Lane in Cashmere and it isn’t on library website. I suspect that the name for the street is because of all the trees on the property and likely to have included nut trees. Most houses here were built in 1950s and there were a few death notices. There were sections available in 1967 and …

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Majestic Lane in Cashmere – Named after the Majestic Theatre, until 2014 at 126 Manchester Street, Christchurch. Named because it was developed on the site of a property used by the New Life Centre, an organisation which also used the Majestic Theatre. The site was part of the old Thorrington estate. The old Wairoa homestead …

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