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St Asaph Street in the Central City, Christchurch

St Asaph Street in the Central City – Willis Street and Chaplin Street were incorporated into St Asaph Street. Named after the Anglican bishopric of St. Asaph in Wales from bishoprics listed in Burke’s Peerage. First mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1852 when 1/4 acre sections are advertised for sale there. Willis Street, running …

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Madras Street in the Central City, Christchurch

Madras Street in the Central City – Named after the colonial Anglican bishopric of Madras in India. One of the original streets of Christchurch named in 1850 by Captain Joseph Thomas (b. 1803?) and Edward Jollie (1825-1894). The names were taken from bishoprics listed in Burke’s Peerage. First mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1851. …

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Cambridge Terrace in the Central City, Christchurch

Cambridge Tce in the Central City – Waterloo Terrace. Avonside Road was incorporated into Cambridge Terrace. Named after Cambridge University. Cambridge does not have a cathedral so this is out-of-step with the method used by Jollie and Thomas in naming other streets. One of the original streets of Christchurch named in 1850 by Edward Jollie …

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Queensbury Street in the Red Zone in the suburb of Burwood, Christchurch

Queensbury St in the red zone of Burwood – formerly Queen Street and Queensberry Street.Queen Street first appears in street directories in 1907. Queen Street and Queensberry Street both appear from 1913. Re-named Queensbury Street by the Waimairi County Council on 8 February 1933 when the problem of duplicate names was addressed with a number …

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Parish Street in the Red Zone in the suburb of Burwood, Christchurch

Parish St in the Red Zone of Burwood – Named after Isaac Parish (1845?-1921). Parish worked with his father, William Parish, on the formation of Ferry Road and was later a farmer. He also served for some years on the Avon Road Board. He lived in a “beautifully situated homestead” on the corner of Lake …

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Liggins Street in the Red Zone of the suburb of Burwood, Christchurch

Liggins St in Burwood Red Zone – Formerly Alfred Street. Named after HRH Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg Gotha (1844-1900). Re-named Liggins Street. Named after and by Joseph Liggins (1888- 1951) Alfred Street first appears in street directories in 1907. One of three streets named after Queen Victoria’s family. Prince Alfred …

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Kingsford Street in the Red Zone in the suburb of Burwood, Christchurch

Kingsford St in Burwood Red Zone – Kingloch Street and King Street were amalgamated to form Kingsford Street. Named after Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897-1935). In 1895 the Avon Road Board was asked to metal a further portion of King Street, Windsor. King Street first appears in street directories in 1907, running from New Brighton …

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Arahura Place in the suburb of Cashmere, Christchurch

Arahura Place in Cashmere and nothing on the library website. Possibly named after the river with the same name. The only information on Papers Past was several ads in 1975 offering sections. Most houses were built in 1970s and 1980s. This runs off Kidson Tce and I actually walked it in August 2020. I finally …

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Oakford Close in the suburb of Riccarton, Christchurch

Oakford Close in Riccarton – Named after Oakford, a large house originally on eight acres of land laid out in garden on the corner of Riccarton Road and Mandeville RoadThe house was built in 1857, on a 20 hectare block on the southern side of Lower Riccarton Road, by Henry Joseph Hall (1837- 1897). Later …

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Palazzo Lane in the suburb of Riccarton, Christchurch

Palazzo Lane in Riccarton and nothing on library website. I thought that the reason why it wasn’t on the library website was because the street is too new but most of the houses were built in 1990s. One meaning of palazzo is Italian for palatial. I wasn’t very comfortable walking this street and stopped when …

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