Pennyburn Place in New Brighton / Red Zone. Name approved in 1996 but not used until 2000. A tiny amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find any information about the reason for the name. The developers were Rookwood Holdings which was owned by the late Warner Mauger and he had a daughter Penny. There is a place in Ireland called Pennyburn but I couldn’t find any Irish connection for the Mauger family as their ancestors came from Guernsey. I couldn’t find any information about this street from either before or after the earthquakes.The houses have all been demolished here as this area was affected badly by liquefaction. Remains of garden shrubs and trees. I was geocaching in this area today

Cerbera Close in New Brighton / Red Zone – Named after the TVR Cerbera Speed 12, a high performance concept car designed by TVR in 1997 Named in 2000. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to this. The area was developed by Rookwood Holdings which is owned by the Mauger family and they were into cars. The houses would have probably been built in the 1990s but have now all been demolished as this area suffered badly from liquefaction. Couldn’t find any extra information about this street.

Chimera Crescent in New Brighton / Red Zone- Named after the TVR Chimaera, a two-seater convertible sports car manufactured by TVR 1992- 2003. Name approved in 1996 but not used until 2000A small amount of information from the library website. Nothing that I can really add as this area was developed by Rookwood Holdings which is owned by the Mauger family and they are into their cars. Note the name of the car is spelt slightly differently to the street. The council actually didn’t approve the name of this street as it was felt that it was too similar to Cerbera Close.Another street were I couldn’t find out any extra information and I suspect that most houses would have been built in the 1990s but have since been demolished. This area suffered badly from liquefaction. Part of this area has been planted with natives plants and there is a sign about the the project. Sadly there are also signs asking people not to steal the plants.

Atlantis St in New Brighton / Red Zone. There was no mention of this street on the library website yet the houses would have been built in the 1990s and the street is mentioned in the council minutes of Sept 2000 where they talked about extending the street to include Barkers Rd. When I walked this street today I didn’t think that there were any houses left as it is another area hit with liquefaction but the QV website had 4 or 5 houses on it. Checked google maps and there are houses down at the end of long driveway. There is a very new looking church on the Travis Rd end of this street and it is a New Life church.My best guess for the naming of this street is that it is after a car called Atlantis because of other streets in the area being named after cars.

Barkers Lane in New Brighton / Red Zone. Barker’s Road and Barkers Road. Named after Enoch Barker (1830-1892) and his brother, John George Barker (1840-1917). Enoch Barker trained as a gardener at Chatsworth, England, the Duke of Devonshire’s house. After emigrating to Canterbury, he was appointed the first Government gardener in 1860 and planted many of the first trees in Hagley Park and the Botanic Gardens. He took up Rural Section 2298, 20 acres near the “River Avon, East Christchurch Road” and in 1867 began market gardening in the Burwood/New Brighton area with his brother John. He was also a director of the New Brighton Tramway Company. He later drowned in the Avon River. Barker’s Road is first mentioned in the Star in 1894 in a report of a meeting of the Avon Road Board. Legally stopped on 21 August 1999, becoming Barkers Lane. Physically stopped once the new link between Travis Road and New Brighton Road was opened.A huge amount of information from the library website and I found the same mention of the street in Papers Past that the library noted. Also in Papers Past in January 1892 there is mention of Enoch Barker’s body being found floating in the Avon River near the Bower Hotel. It gives his age as 62 and that he was a farmer as well as owning a store on New Brighton Rd. Mentioned that he was the former curator of the Christchurch Domain. A few days later there was an obituary which said that he was buried at Burwood. Gave a brief history of his life and that he arrived in NZ on the Strathmore and was employed by W S Moorhouse as a gardener and later he designed and supervised the aying out of the Domain Garden. He built the first house in New Brighton 30 years earlier and was a director of the Pier Company. Note the Christchurch Domain mentioned is now called the Botanic Gardens. The obituary made a mistake about which ship Enoch arrived on as he came out on the Strallallan that arrived in NZ in January 1859. His wife died on board and he was left with two young daughters. He quickly remarried within the year.This street obviously has no houses any longer and I couldn’t find out how many houses were here but suspect there weren’t many. Ground is quite boggy especially after how much rain we have had lately.5 commentsLikeCommentShare

Blue Gum Place in New Brighton. Named after a gum tree on the site. The tree was planted in the early 1940s by the landowner, Davie Holder. It was felled as a danger in 2007. Formed post-1997. Information supplied in 2008 by Jack Ryan, in a letter to Margaret Harper.A reasonable of information from the library website and I can’t add anything about the naming of the street. This street is on the edge of the red zone but managed to survive. Most the houses date from 1990s and 2000 but a few have been built within the last couple of years. David Holder lived at 184 Travis Rd and his occupation was farmer. He died in July 1958 aged 62 and his wife Ethel died in 1961 aged 63 and they are both buried at Burwood. They both come from the Forest of Dean area in the UK and were married at Littledean in 1920. I couldn’t find a date for their arrival in NZ but they were living at Travis Road in 1928. Note, I love the Forest of Dean area in the UK. None of the houses stood out for me but it looked like there were some larger really nice houses on back sections. The houses were tidy and well cared for with some nice gardens. The best thing for a street of this type was that there was a footpath on both sides of the street.

Echelon Drive – Named after an echelon, an arrangement of aircraft in which each one is slightly to the right or left of the one in front. In the Wigram Skies subdivision where the street names have an aviation theme. Named in 2014.A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the naming of the street. The street runs from Kittyhawk Ave to Lodestar Ave. The houses are all modern houses and nothing stood out for me. There wasn’t even an ugly house. Personally I felt that they were bland and boring.

Lodestar Ave – In the Wigram Aerodrome subdivision by Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd where the street names are either of aircraft or taken from the list of the first 100 students at the Flight School established by Sir Henry Wigram in 1917. Named in 2012.A small amount of information from the library website and I can add that it is likely to be named after an aircraft called Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar which was a passenger transport aircraft from World War II.This street has mostly businesses at the Hayton Rd end to Vickerys Rd. From Vickerys Rd to Corsair Drive there is huge space on one side which probably belongs to the airforce with about 6 houses at the Corsair Drive end. On the other side of the street there are villas belonging to Lady Wigram retirement village and they actually looked quite nice even if exactly the same. Most had small but lovely gardens. There were also new buildings being built and these looked like a complex rather than villas. A couple of reserves and a small walkway which looked pleasant and of course I just might have been geocaching in the area.

Strikemaster Lane in Wigram and nothing on library website but that is understandable as this private lane is brand new. It runs off Corsair Drive. Only 9 properties and all were built in 2019 and all went on the market in December 2019. The lane would be named after the Strikemaster jet which was a British training and light attack aircraft and it first flew in 1950.The houses all looked exactly the same here and my photo is a screen shot from google maps from when the houses were still being built.

Aermacchi Lane is a private lane in Wigram and there is nothing on the library website for this street but it is a fairly new street. Most houses built in 2018 with a couple built in 2017 and 2019.Would have been named after the Italian aviation company Aermacchi or even possibly named after jet trainer and light attack aircraft designed and manufactured by this company. A friend told me that the RNZAF used Aermacchi fighters/ trainer aircraft from 1970s to 2000s. The street runs off Corsair Drive and the houses looked tiny and cramped together. I only have a screenshot from google maps for this street.