Roy Place in Harewood and here is nothing on the library website or anywhere else about this street. It is on google maps and there is a signpost saying Roy Place. I can’t find out any information about it. It runs off Orchard Rd and circles around the Antarctic Centre.

Firth Place in Burnside. First appears in street directories in 1976. A tiny amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find any information about how the street was named. I searched the ancestry website for anyone with the surname Firth to have lived on Memorial Ave but nothing. There were several people with surname Frith living in Christchurch but none living in this area that I could find. Another nearby street has a Scottish name and the blurp for that street said it was in keeping with the Scottish theme for Burnside so it is possible that it received the name because it is perceived to be Scottish. There could be a connection to whoever developed the street. It looks like the street was developed at 259, 261 and 263 Memorial Ave and the houses date from 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. There is a footpath on both sides of the street so it had to be an older street. There are only 11 houses and they are all made from brick.

Memorial Ave – An extension of Fendalton Road. Burnside Road. Fendall Town Road was cut through Rural Section 18, 50 acres in Fendall Town purchased by W. C. Fendall. First mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1857. Fendalton Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1864 and first appears in street directories in 1894. At that time Fendalton Road extended into what became Burnside Road (later Memorial Avenue). Burnside Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1903 in a report of a meeting of the Riccarton Road Board. Re-named Memorial Avenue on 14 December 1956. It was dedicated in 1959 to the memory of the men and women of the New Zealand armed forces who gave their lives in World War II.A reasonable amount of information from the library website but it doesn’t say why it was named Burnside Road. My best guess is that one of the early settlers in this area was from Burnside in Scotland. Several mentions on Papers Past and there were sections for sale in 1907 and 1908 as well as 1927 and 1946. Land for at least two domains were discussed in 1934. In 1906 the road was widened and shingled. In May 1945 there was support for a Memorial Avenue in Burnside Road from Harewood aerodrome for a distance of 2 or 3 miles. Avenue to be two chains wide which was an increase of one chain. A number of landowners agreed to give land for the widening. There were a couple of objections and one was because the the potential for a bottleneck at the Fendalton Rd end. The second objection was about the golf course losing land. In June 1945 they talked about the memorial being for fallen airmen but the two plaques at ither end of the Avenue both state that it is for fallen servicemen.This is a long road and it took me an hour and a half to walk it. At the airport end there are at least three plaques as well as the spitfire and the Totem Pole. With all the businesses in the area including a supermarket they don’t stand out as well as they used. They are a familiar sight for returning travellers. Then there is the new overbridge which is an interesting design. Once past the bridge there is the golf course on one side and on the other side a huge section of empty land. This land was in the news recently because it has a new owner who is going to develop the land. Yet the previous owner wanted to develop the land but had problems with consents. Then there are 2 or 3 hotels and at least one of them is currently an isolation hotel. A little bit further on is Avice Hill Reserve. The houses on this street date from the 1920s and cover every decade since. The ones built in the 1920s and 1930s are hard to see as they are behind well established trees and gardens. There is a huge mixture of designs but the one that stood out was a dome house. I have frequently driven on this road and can’t believe that I have never noticed this house before. Just shows that you see so much more when walking. The house dates from about 1980 and there is a photo of it from 1983 on the discovery wall at the library. There is Burnside Park along here and it is huge and further along there are a couple of smaller parks. Just before Grahams Rd the street sign used to have large Pac Man stickers but sadly they have now gone. I quite liked them so disappointed that they have gone. They were there for several years. A few shops but most are at the Fendalton Rd end including a supermarket. Both Burnside Primary School and Burnside High School are bordered by Memorial Ave. There is one lonely Art Deco house near the supermarket. I took a lot of photos here.

Lothian Street in Ilam. Named after East and West Lothian in Edinburgh. Named to continue the Scottish theme of street names in Burnside. First appears in street directories in 1900 running through to Tay Street (later part of Hamilton Avenue. A small amount of information from the library website. The street runs off Memorial Ave There are 37 houses here and they date from 1920 but most are built 1950s and 1960s. None of the houses stood out for me and I would never have picked that any were earlier than the 1970s. Most looked OK but a few were looking tired and rundown. Suspect it might be a few rentals aimed at students here. Not much information on Papers Past and it was mostly ads for a William Vernall who was a tinsmith living on the street. I couldn’t find anything earlier than 1915. Two sad death notices for the same woman. She had a son killed in WWI and then a son die in 1918 from the influenza.

Waygreen Ave in New Brighton / Red Zone. This street wasn’t on the library website and I couldn’t find a reason for the name. The street is mentioned in the media and the are photos of the houses on UC QuakeStudies. It looks like most of the houses were built in the 1990s so they weren’t old houses when demolished. The street ran from New Brighton St to Atlantis St. I found a description of the street on Stuff website called interactives.stuff. “It was a little street and whimsical by design and old English style lamps adorned the footpaths.” Some of the lamps are still there. This area suffered badly from liquefaction and it is now badly overgrown

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