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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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Lucknow Place in Cashmere – Named after Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh State in northern India. One of the streets in Cashmere given the name of a place in India. First appears in street directories in 1991. A small amount of information from the library website and the Indian names for Cashmere are because …

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Rossmore Tce in Cashmere – Named after the Rossmore family. The Rossmores were aristocrats with connections to the Westenra family. Captain Richard Westenra (1794- 1880) was a “grandson of a former Lord Rossmore”. Frederick Herbert Wilson (1832-1902) and Frances Sarah Wilson, née Westenra, (1831-1903) named their eldest son Rossmore Cracroft Wilson (1863-1942). First mentioned in …

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Roseneath Place in Cashmere- First appears in street directories in 1970. A tiny amount of information from the library website and my best guess about the name of the street is that it is named after a place in Scotland. Not a lot that I can say about the street except most houses were built …

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