Hercules Street in Shirley- First appears in street directories in 1948. Tiny amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find out how this street got it’s name. I expected Papers Past to have information but nothing. I actually walked this street in May but didn’t have time to research to write it up as June and July was rather busy with frequent hospital visiting. This street runs from Marshlands Rd to Quinns Rd and there are only about 30 houses here. Most seem to have been built in 1940s and 1950s. They are typical of that era and some have a state house look about them. If they weren’t state houses it is possible that they were built under the returned servicemen scheme. If they had been state houses I would have expected them to have been mentioned in Papers Past. Street is very handy for The Palms Mall. Edited to say that I found it more information about the street and it was social housing in a block of land called Emmett’s Block. Arthur Emmett died in 1948 and he was a farmer in the area.

Louisa Chandler Place in Linwood -Named after Louisa Brittan, née Chandler, (1810?- 1901). Louisa Brittan was the wife of William Guise Brittan (1809-1876), commissioner of Crown lands for Canterbury in 1853 and also a newspaper editor. They lived at Englefield in Fitzgerald Avenue. First appears in street directories in 1995. A small amount of information from the library website. I walked this street in December 2019 and not sure why I hadn’t written it up. I remember that I was geocaching in the area and didn’t find the cache. There are houses here but I couldn’t find out any information about them. It is a very leafy and pleasant looking private lane and is at the back of Englefield. Louisa’s husband William Guise Brittan built the house Englefield and sold it in 1864. Louisa was born in 1809 and died in August 1901 aged 91. She married William Guise Brittan in Weymouth on 17th February 1842.One of Louisa’s daughters Emily Sophia Foster was the third principal of Christchurch Girls High from 1894 to 1897. There were comments in various pages online about how unusual that a married woman with children reached such a position. Sadly Emily Foster died suddenly on 30th December 1897 just after her 55th birthday. This interested me as I went to Girls High.

Price Place in Linwood – Named on 21 February 1962. A tiny amount of information from the library website and this is another street that I walked December 2019 and thought that I had already written it up. I couldn’t find any more information about the street. There are only 11 properties here and most were built in the 1960s. They are typical of the 1960s style and mostly built of brick. The street runs off Nicholas Drive between 19 and 27 Nicholas Drive. My best guess would be that someone with that surname lived there but couldn’t find anything on the electoral rolls on the ancestry website. My next guess would be that it is the surname of the developer. I would need to go to the library to research and that is obviously not possible at the moment because of lockdown. Besides the street didn’t really do a lot for me.

Nicholas Drive in Linwood – Named after Sergeant Henry James Nicholas (1891-1918). Nicholas was awarded the Victoria Cross following his bravery in action at Polderhoek in Belgium on 3 December 1917. Members of his family are buried at Bromley Cemetery. Developed in Sandilands. Houses were built there by the Christchurch City Council for returned soldiers after World War One (1914-1918). It was known as a cottage homes settlement. The street name was suggested at a meeting of the executive of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association on 29 October 1934. Named officially in 1935. First appears in street directories in 1939.A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I actually walked this street in December 2019 and thought that I had already written it up. I have walked this street twice as there are two geocaches nearby. My geocaching friends will understand why I prefer not to walk it again. Only 6 entries on the website Papers Past and they all relate to the naming of the street and why the street was formed. It was a Soldiers Settlement in an area called Sandilands. Nicholas Drive was applied to the main entrance and the roads enclosing the administration block. There is no longer an administration block and going by the description it was probably where the reserve is now. More houses were built in 1946. There are only 31 properties on this street and most were built in the 1940s and 1960s. They are a mixture of brick and wooden houses. The brick houses look like 1960s style and the wooden ones look like 1940s style. This street runs between Kearneys Rd and Pages Rd. Henry James Nicholas was killed in the first World War and is buried in Vertigneul Churchyard. His Victoria Cross was presented to his mother on ANZAC Day in 1919. She donated his medals to the Museum. The statue of a soldier near the Bridge of Remembrance that was erected in 2007 is of Henry James Nicholas.

Seaview Rd and Brighton Mall in New Brighton – Sea View Road was formed in 1890 and first appears in street directories in 1911. It was the road into New Brighton when leaving New Brighton Road and went directly towards the sea. In 1887, the New Brighton Tramway Company put its bridge over the river from what is now Pages Road and into Seaview Road. Listed as Seaview Road in street directories from 1914. However in New Brighton, Canterbury’s Playground, published in 1923, both versions of the name (Sea View and Seaview) are used. [In 1918 the New Brighton Borough Council considered changing the name to Anzac Street but this was never done.]A reasonable amount of information from the library website about Seaview Rd. I have included Brighton Mall as it used to be part of Seaview Rd. I couldn’t find out when it was named Brighton Mall. In 1899 channelling of the street was discussed plus drainage issues. In 1920s and 1930s there seemed to be a lot of car accidents on this street. In 1931 a cyclist riding fast at night without lights knocked down the local police Inspector F Blewitt. In 1925 the property belonging to the late G Hawker was for sale. In 1929 there was a lot of discussion about the new bridge over the Avon. In 1920s and 1930s there seemed to be lots of burglaries and fires in private houses and businesses. A chemist shop and a draper shop plus the Premier Picture Theatre were amongst the businesses either had a fire or was burgled. I found it slightly amusing that a business called Self Help Co-op Grocery Co was broken into. The businesses in this street heavily promoted Saturday shopping and I used to enjoy going to Brighton on Saturdays. This was obviously before shops elsewhere opened in the weekends. I did like the letter to the paper in December 1935 from Patricia McCarthy to Santa Claus. She gave very precise directions to how to get to her house at 149 Seaview Rd plus there would be a thermos flask of tea for him. The area was also promoted as an area for seaside holidays and most ads were about a house called Oriental House. There was a good letter to the editor dated 14th June 1924 headed Father of Brighton. The businesses all seemed to be in the area which is now Brighton Mall. The Mall has lots of shops but sadly many of them are closed. There are a few houses at the other end of the street near the river but several now house businesses. A couple of houses from 1890 and 1910 but most date in the 1970s.The New Brighton Police Station is on this street plus Grace Vineyard Church. The New Brighton School used to have an entrance on this street and the school took up the block from Seaview St to Hawke St. I walked this street at least three weeks ago after a visit to Burwood Hospital. I believe that there is a weekend market in the Mall area.

Joe Burns Place – Named after a local identity of the Wigram area. First appears in street directories in 1993.A small amount of information from the library website. I found a Joseph Gregory Burns who was an airman at Wigram and in 1969 his address was Air Force Station. He died 31st March 1990 and he was born 24th June 1915. Couldn’t find much information on the Ancestry website. In 1952 he married Gladys Crum and in 1941 his occupation was jockey. It is highly likely that he lived in the area where this street is situated and most the houses here were built in 2000. There is a walkway through to Corsair Ave. There is a footpath on only one side of the street which I dislike. The developer with the column fetishes obviously built some of these houses. It actually looked like a pleasant street apart from the footpath issue. I actually walked this street in November last year but only posted on Facebook and not here. Taking advantage of lockdown and a wet day to tidy up my street project.

FW Delamain Drive – Named after Frederick William Delamain (1835- 1910). Delamain, a horsebreeder, owned Yaldhurst, a racing stables and stud. He named it after his uncle’s place in Exeter, England. He sold this property in 1878. He was also a descendant of one of France’s great cognac making families. In the Delamain subdivision. Named in 2007.A park called Delamain Park goes the full length of one side of this street and I couldn’t find the cache here. I hate that tussock grass. The Council uses it in all parks and reserves and in the reserve next to my own house it is damaging my fence and I have ended up with it growing in my garden. The Council aren’t interested in fixing the issue. The other side had modern houses which were nice. Most had lovely gardens. Not sure how I managed to miss loading this street to this website as I walked it ages ago when I was geocaching in the area.

Southampton Street in Sydenham- Probably named after Southampton in Hampshire, England. First appears in the Star in 1882 when a house to let is advertised Southampton Street. First appears in street directories in 1887. A small amount of information on the library website. Nothing that I can add about the name of the street and possibly one of the naming committee had a connection to Southampton. This is a long street that runs from Colombo St to Tennyson St. There wasn’t as many mentions on Papers Past as I expected and this is because it would possibly was a working class area. In 1882 there were two new cottages for sale. The houses here date from 1910 to more recent houses. A couple of toilet block style houses but many are wooden older villas. They are in a similar style with one big bay window in the front of the house. Most are in a reasonable condition but a few looking a bit rundown. There is one Art Deco house on the street. At the Colombo St end there is a big building housing Salvation Army Headquarters and a op shop. There is a lovely house near Colombo St end which I loved and it is next to an identical house that was very rundown. A local that I chatted with said that the rundown house was just as rundown inside. There is an entrance to Essie Summers Retirement Village here and a huge number of apartments which are possibly part of Essie Summers. The retirement home is named after a Christchurch author who wrote romance novels. I don’t normally read this genre but will confess to have read some of her books because they set in Christchurch. Another street that I walked in February but only posted on Facebook and not here. I obviously did a lot walking in February so I checked my steps and I walked over 34,000 steps in a two day period.

Redbridge Lane in Sydenham – Formed in 1970. First appears in street directories in 1972. A small amount of information from the library website. I will confess that I didn’t actually walk this street as it is a private lane that looked like someone’s driveway. I was very surprised that the QV website has 17 properties here as it didn’t look big enough for that many houses. They were all built in the 1970s and the lane was developed at what would have been 146 Southampton St. I don’t know why the name Redbridge for the street but I found a Redbridge Lane in the English city of Southampton. This is another street from February that I put on my Facebook but not on WordPress. I looked back in my diary to see why and I had two geocaching trips at the same time. I went to Greymouth and Dunedin in February and March.

Montrose Street in Sydenham- Named after James Graham, first Marquess of Montrose (1612- 1650). Montrose was a Scottish supporter of the House of Stuart and also a poet. Probably named to continue the theme of “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council in January 1880. First mentioned in the Star in 1882 when property is advertised for sale in Montrose Street. First appears in street directories in 1892. A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Nothing that I can add about the naming the the street and at some stage I would like to access the committee papers about the naming of the streets. Montrose is also a place name in Scotland. Papers Past had sections for sale in 1892 but there was a cottage for let as early as 1883. There were several notices for William Barnett’s wife as they lived on this street. I mentioned this family when writing up King St. In 1912 there were several complaints from the residents of the street as they claimed that the council had deposited sewage on the road. This street runs from Southampton St to Huxley St and there are only 22 properties here. They date from 1890 through to 1949 with only one more modern house dated 1990. Some of the houses were lovely and I did like this street. Another street that I walked in February but neglected to add to this website. Tidying up my street project during lockdown as I have walked the majority of streets near where I live.