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Sails Street formerly Sail’s Road. in Papanui – Named after James Sail (1819- 1908). Sail arrived in Canterbury on the Charlotte Jane in December 1850 and lived on Harewood Road, Papanui for 54 years. He helped form the Bridle Path and was for some time employed by the Hon. John Watts-Russell at Ilam. He also …

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Langstone Lane – Named because the developer wished to continue the “lang” theme of Langdons Road. Named in 2001. Small amount of information from the library website. Information from Council website – PAP/20007506 154-160 Langdons Road C Inns – Papanui Ward An access allotment and right of way has been constructed to serve three residential …

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Ellery Street in Northcote and nothing on the library website for this street. The valuation website that I use claims that the houses here were built between 1980 and 2010 but most were actually built in the 1950s. The earliest mention on Papers Past is a MED ad in 1954. Can anyone else remember when …

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Chapel Street in Papanui – Formerly Myrniong Street. Named after Myrniong, a large house which once existed in this street. The house was named after Myrniong, a small town near Melbourne. This, in turn, was named after the murmong plant, an Aboriginal name for the yam daisy. Re-named Chapel Street. Named because of the Wesleyan …

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Shadbolt Boulevard in Woolston – Formerly Staunton Street. Named after Cora Bessie Staunton (1902-1948). Re-named Shadbolt Boulevard. Named after Howard Leslie Shadbolt (d. 1999). Cora Staunton was the matron of the North Canterbury Hospital Board’s Jubilee Home 1938- 1948. At the time there was an entrance to the Home from the street. Named in 1958. …

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William Charlesworth known as Captain Charlesworth lived in a house on Ferry Road called Saxon Villa. Saxon obviously had some meaning for him as he was the captain of a barque called Royal Saxon and one of his sons was called William Saxon Charlesworth. Captain Charlesworth died in 1875 from an axe wound which he …

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Kotuku Crescent in Woolston and nothing on new or old library website. Kotuku is an Eastern Great Egret known as a white heron or Kotuku in New Zealand. Most houses were built in the 1990s with a few built a bit later. It looked like a lovely street with nice gardens but a noise control …

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Sweet Waters Place in Woolston – Named to continue the theme of street names in the Brookhaven subdivision. Developed by Enterprise Homes. Named in 1999. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. Most houses here were built in 2005 with a …

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Teal Close in Woolston and nothing on old or new library website. It would have been named after the bird to keep within the theme of the rest of the subdivision. Most houses here were built in the 1990s and 2000s and they are fairly large. The footpath is on only one side of the …

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Delta Way and nothing on either old or new library website. I checked the council website and they seem to have changed the way you can search so I couldn’t find any information there. I suspect that it gets it name from a river delta. The houses here were all built between 1990 and 2018 …

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