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Gunns Crescent in Cashmere – Named after the Scottish clan from which Sir John Cracroft Wilson (1808-1881) descended. Clan Gunn is a Scottish clan associated with north-eastern Scotland. First appears in street directories in 1968. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to it. There were sections …

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Glamis Place in Cashmere – Named after Glamis, a castle in Scotland. First appears in street directories in 1966. A tiny amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. I think that I have visited this castle in Scotland. Most houses were built in …

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Emerald Lane in Cashmere and there was nothing on library website about it. Most houses were built in the 2000s. I ended up chatting to one of the residents and he said that it had been a market garden with lots of glasshouses before it was subdivided. It is possible that it was named after …

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Scarff Place in Cashmere – Named after Walter William Prideaux Scarff (1880?-1944). Scarff was a member of the Heathcote County Council 1914- 1935 and, for a time, chairman. He was county inspector from 1935 until his death. First appears in street directories in 1995.Information supplied in 2007 by Alan Copping, a grandson of Walter Scarff, …

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Barrer Lane in Cashmere – Named after Bryan Amherst Barrer (1908-1980) and his wife, Margaret (1916-1982). The Barrers owned several acres of flat tussock land behind Queen Elizabeth II Park in Victoria Park Road which they landscaped, naming the property Four Winds. The property was subdivided after Mrs Barrer’s death. First appears in street directories …

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Amherst Place in Cashmere – Named after Bryan Amherst Barrer (1908-1980) Barrer was a lawyer and foundation member of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club. First appears in street directories in 1978. A small amount of information from the library website. There were a few entries on Papers Past and they were about the subdivision in 1974. …

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Harry Ell Drive in Cashmere – Named after Henry George “Harry” Ell (1862-1934). Ell was a prohibitionist, parliamentarian 1899- 1919, conservationist and an advocate of the establishment of a string of reserves along the Port Hills. First appears in street directories in 1990. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that …

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Derrynane Lane in Cashmere – nothing on library website. Derrynane is a village in Ireland and it was also the name of the ship. Couldn’t find out anything about this tiny street. There are only about 4 houses here built in 1990s. Another one that I have managed to do twice and I have a …

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Fox Lane in Cashmere – First appears in street directories in 1991. A tiny amount of information from the library website. It is highly likely that this name is connected to the Allom family and the lane is opposite Allom Lane. Thomas Allom’s second wife was Eliza Fox. Another street that I had forgotten that …

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Allom Lane in Cashmere – Named after Thomas Allom (1804-1872). Allom, an English artist, topographical illustrator and architect, was one of the founder members of what eventually became the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was a friend of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and spent some time in Canterbury where he lithographed some works of Heaphy. …

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