Antigua Street – Named after Antigua, a colonial bishopric, Antigua in the West Indies. The section of the street south of Moorhouse Avenue was formerly named Windmill Road. Named after the flourmill erected in 1856 by William Derisley Wood (1824-1904). It was on the site of the Canterbury Brewery which was demolished following the earthquakes of 2010/2011. One of the original streets of Christchurch named in 1850 by surveyors Captain Joseph Thomas (b. 1803?) and Edward Jollie (1825-1894). The names were taken from bishoprics listed in Burke’s Peerage. Windmill Road as an alternative name appears in an advertisement in the Star in 1868. William Feathery (1829?-1910) bought the windmill there in 1866 and moved it to Leithfield where it stood behind Leith’s hotel. Officially re-named Antigua Street in 1909.One end has the Antigua Boat sheds which is a cafe and the punts leave from here. Today is the first time in ages that I have been able to walk this street without having to dodge roadworks. Where the Brewery used to be is now a big empty section where they plan to build a sports stadium. Between Moorhouse Ave and Brougham St it is a mixture of businesses and houses. Many old houses that are looking rundown. The new cycleway attracted lots of protests.

Truro St in Sumner and there was nothing on the library website for this street. This surprised me as it is an old street. There were sections for sale as early as 1888 and they seemed to be part of something called Johnstone Township. As Truro is a town in Cornwall I expect that is where the name comes from. I obviously walked this street before lockdown. There is a geocache hidden on an empty section on this street. The houses are a mixture of older villas and what looks like 1960s style brick houses. At least one rebuild. Part of the street is bordered by Van Asch College. There is a tsunami siren on this street.

Stoke Street – Named after Stoke-by Nayland, in south Suffolk, England. One of the Sumner street names connected with the Wakefield family. One of Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s sisters was married to the Rev. C. M. Torlesse, vicar of Stoke-by-Nayland. Interesting information on the library website. Nayland St is nearby but I didn’t walk this one today. Stoke St had a mixture of new and old houses and the most interesting thing was someone’s fence. A local told me that a prominent volcanologist lives there. She said that she had a lovely old house but it was demolished after the earthquakes and now has a modern house but she does prefer the older houses.

Raekura Place – Designed by Anna Holmes “Nancy” Northcroft (1913-1980), town planner, and architects Cowie and McGregor. Developed by Fred Blogg in 1971. Te Rai Kura means: redcliffs. No wonder this street had newer looking houses on it going by the information on the library website. Most were flats with houses at cliff end of the street. I suspect that at least one house at the cliff end has been demolished. A couple had nice gardens but most were too small to have decent gardens.

Celia Street – Named after Cecilia O’Malley, née Boyle, (1859?-1923). She was known as Celia. Cecilia Boyle, a servant, came to New Zealand in 1877 and married Peter O’Malley (1853?-1920), a contractor and landowner of Redcliffs, at the Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament in 1880. The O’Malleys lived at Okuti Valley, Little River after leaving Redcliffs.Interesting information from the library website. This street has Redcliffs Park at one end where the Redcliffs school is being rebuilt. Another street with a mixture of new and old houses. Some of the older houses were small worker type of cottages and the others were huge. The newer houses were big as well. There were a few brick houses of the 1950s to 1960s style scattered along the street. I was going to take a photo of a very badly done mock Tudor style house but there was a couple walking behind me.

James Street -Named after James Pepperell (1859?-1911). Pepperell, a woolclasser, was a Woolston farmer and a member of the Redcliffs land syndicate that subdivided the land where this street is formed. James Terrace first appears in street directories in 1910. Becomes James Street in 1914.Reasonable amount of information from the library website. As usual with an older suburb there is a mixture of new and old houses but more old than new here. The older houses were wooden villas and I do like this style of house. The Redcliffs community centre and bowling club is at one end of the street. I have noticed in these older suburbs that there are many water meters leaking water everywhere and the council has the cheek to tell us that we need to be conserving water.

Stanton Crescent – Named after Sir Joseph Stanton (1884-1963). Stanton was a lawyer and judge of the Supreme Court from 1948. In a 145-acre housing subdivision planned by the housing division of the Ministry of Works. The land was purchased from the Church Property Trustees and the Loughnan estate. In 1968 the street names subcommittee of the council felt that as Halswell was named after a prominent English Queen’s Counsel it would be appropriate to record the names of judges in street names there. Many of them had been QCs or KCs before appointment to the Bench.This was interesting information from the library website and I lived on Stanton Crescent for 22 years and didn’t know this. Most of the houses are summerhill stone and most are in good condition. I still know a few people on this street.

Templetons Way – Named in 2012. That was very brief information on the library website. This is obviously a new street and it runs between Augustine Drive and Templetons Rd which will be how it got it’s name. Only three houses here and one empty overgrown section.

Templetons Road – nothing on library website which surprised me as this road has been here since at least the 1960s. I often used to walk in this area when I lived in the area over 29 years ago. In those days the houses were only on one side of the road with paddocks on the other side. The houses on the older side are mostly brick and would date from the 1960s and the newer houses on the side where the paddocks used to be probably date from 2012. The new houses are mostly brick as well. This road is blocked off at the Halswell Rd end which is fairly new as you used to be able to drive into this road from Halswell Rd. There is a large kindergarten on the Halswell Rd corner. I suspect that this road is named after a family called Templeton who lived in the area. There was a John and Ivy Templeton and they had at least one son Isaac but Isaac died as a baby. My photo is from the park end. I found my information on Past Papers and Ancestry websites.

Neave Place – Named after Francis Digby Spencer Neave (1842-1913). Neave owned the Mount Algidus run for 27 years. He was also a fellow of Christ’s College and he lived at Okeover in Ilam. One of the streets in the area formed on land belonging to Christ’s College. First appears in street directories in 1972.Interesting information from library website. Another street where the land still owned by Christs College was sold to an Auckland developer. A short street but because it is in a slightly older suburb the footpath is on both sides of the street. Difficult to photos as the street was really busy. There was Enable contractors plus glaziers. A woman was walking her dog as well. I managed one photo and I was so sure that this was where a former boss from my Postbank days at Barrington but the house looked different from what I remembered,