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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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Paulus Tce in Cashmere – Named after Petrus Paulus Hendrickus Blokker (1930?- 1982).Blokker was a mechanic and freezing worker. His signature appears on the two subdivision plans that laid out the right-of-way. First appears in street directories in 1964.Information supplied in 2007 by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council. A small amount of information …

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Landsdowne Tce in Cashmere – First appears in street directories in 1964. A tiny amount of information from the library website. Most entries on Papers Past were ads for sections in 1966 but there was one interesting article from 1963. The secretary of the Historic Places Trust Christchurch branch requested that the name of the …

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Kanuku Place in Cashmere and there wasn’t anything on the library website yet this was a subdivision in 1963. It was mostly ads for sections on Papers Past plus a couple of death notices. Described as part of the Cashmere Downs subdivision. None of the houses stood out for me and they were fairly typical …

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