Neville Street – First appears in street directories in 1903. A small amount of information from the library website.

The first entry that I could find on Papers Past was a death notice in 1902. There were several ads for the sale of sections in 1907, 1919 and 1920. In 1937 and 1938 there were houses built on behalf of Housing Construction Dept. I searched ancestry website with no luck and there doesn’t seem to be a connection to Lord Lyttelton. I found a couple of names on the cemetery database but couldn’t find a link. The street was possibly formed from the subdivision of a farm in 1907 but I couldn’t find the precise address of the farm.

The houses here seemed to be from every decade and a mixture of styles and building materials. Most were in good condition and there were a couple of lovely wooden villas. I suspect that there could still be some Housing Corp houses here.

Bewdley Street – Named after Bewdley near Worcester in England. Several streets in this area have names associated with the Lyttelton family because they were formed on Rural Section 76, 700 acres on the “Lower Lincoln Road, Heathcote Bridge” purchased by Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798-1857) and Conway Lucas Rose (1817-1910). Spencer’s interest in the land was passed on to his nephew, the Hon. George William Spencer Lyttelton (1847-1913), the 4th son of George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton (1817- 1876). He and Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham and later Lord Lyttelton (1842-1922), and John Cavendish Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham, all served as High Stewards of Bewdley. Rose served as a magistrate for the Province of Canterbury in 1853. First appears in street directories in 1953.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Not really a lot that I can add to this. Countess Baldwin of Bewdley died in 1945 so this is a possible reason why the name was chosen. All the houses here seem to be from 1950 and I double-checked one that looked more modern but it from 1950s as well but had been done up in a more modern style.Most houses on this street are made of brick. At the Barrington Street end there is a group of shops that date from 1960s and opposite the shops is a brand new childcare business. This has been built on land where a church used to be. One of my photos is of a house that is on the corner of Bewdley St and Evesham Crescent.

Countess Lane – nothing on library website for this lane. I didn’t actually walk this street as it was a private lane and I also had to cross Neville St to avoid a large group of about six young men who were making no attempt to social distance from people. There are only about 8 to 10 houses here and they are from 1970s and 1980s and 1990s. This lane is where 37 and 39 Neville St used to be and I couldn’t find out anything about the name of the lane. No photos here.

Evesham Crescent – Named after the Vale of Evesham in southern Worcestershire, England. The Lyttelton family owned property in the Vale of Evesham from as early as the 13th century. Their family seat is Hagley Hall in Worcestershire. Several streets in this area have names associated with the Lyttelton family because they were formed on Rural Section 76, 700 acres on the “Lower Lincoln Road, Heathcote Bridge” purchased by Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798-1857) and Conway Lucas Rose (1817-1910). Spencer’s interest in the land was passed on to his nephew, the Hon. George William Spencer Lyttelton (1847-1913), the 4th son of George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton (1817- 1876). First appears in street directories in 1958.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website and there is not a lot that I can add. Most houses seem to have been built in the 1950s with a couple of houses on back sections built in 1990s plus a house built in 2014. Mostly brick very ordinary looking houses. I suspect that many of these houses would have been built with government loans that was offered to returned servicemen. I remember in my Post Office days from the 1970s that the loans were paid at the Post Office and the customers had booklets that you stamped. It was called State Advances those days.
It was a pleasant street reasonably close to Barrington Mall and Barrington Park.

Cherrytree Lane – Named because it was developed on the former site of Cox’s Nursery. Cox’s Nursery was opened on the site by Arthur Cox (1904- 1977) in 1930. The developers planned to plant cherry trees in the subdivision. Named in 2001.

A reasonable of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to it. Going by the QV website there are 10 houses here and two were built in 2014 and the rest in 2000. Obviously the cherry trees weren’t in blossom at this time of the year. I didn’t actually walk this street as it was very clear that it was a private lane. It curves around until it almost meets Tulip Lane. No photos for this street.

Dellow Place – Named after Albert Dellow (1906-1995). Dellow, a building inspector for the Christchurch City Council, lived at 55 Evesham Crescent where this street was developed. First appears in street directories in 1970.

A small amount of information from the library website and not really a lot that I can add. I am wondering if 55 Evesham Crescent is correct for the subdivision as this street is between numbers 13 and 17 Evesham Crescent and number 55 is at the other end of Evesham Crescent. Going by QV website there is one house from 1950 and several from 1960s and a couple from 1970s and 1980s.
This was a pleasant wee street with mostly brick houses. I did like the one with the bright yellow door.

Forsyth Street – First appears in street directories in 1962.
Not much information on the library website. Checked QV website and most houses are from 1960s but No 1 Forsyth St is from 1930s. It looks like this street was developed at 29 and 31 Wychbury St. I found a couple of possible names on cemetery database and one was a retired builder but couldn’t find any information on ancestry website to show that they lived in Spreydon. Mostly brick houses and nothing stood out for me.

Deejay Lane – Named after Desmond Joseph Soper (1919- 1993). Soper was a builder. Named in 2006.A tiny amount of information from the library website and the date 2006 is totally wrong.

I remember Deejay Lane from my Post Office days so 2006 isn’t possible for the naming of this street. Checked QV website and all houses bar one are from 1970s. There was one house from 1950. Checked ancestry website and Desmond Soper in 1978 and 1981 lived at 3 Deejay Lane going by the electoral rolls. In 1972 he lived at 64A Domain Tce and this address doesn’t exist any longer. Going by Google maps the properties here were huge. Personally I feel that Deejay Lane is where 64A Domain Tce used to be and would have been named in the 1970s. Desmond Soper is likely to have had the nickname Deejay based on his in

Peters Lane – First appears in street directories in 1976. A tiny amount of information from the library website.
Checked QV website and all properties are from the 1970s. As there is no 25 or 27 Coronation St I suspect that the original houses were demolished for this 1970s subdivision. The original sections in this area were fairly large those days. I don’t know who Peter is but he was I assume the developer of the subdivision. I couldn’t find anymore information by googling.

Pony Lane and Stable Court Lane. Neither lane is mentioned on the library website and both lanes have houses dating from 1980s and 1990s.

I didn’t walk these lanes as they were clearly marked private. Stable Court Lane curves around until it almost meets up with Pony Lane. My best guess for the names of the streets is that there were stables here. Searched Papers Past and I found Spreydon Stables which were also called G W Watkins Stables. Mr Watkins dealt with racehorses and when there was a big Waimak flood in 1926 Mr Watkins stabled horses on behalf of people affected by the flooding. Mr Watkins lived on Edinburgh Street but I couldn’t find an obituary for him and I would have expected there to have been one.
I could be totally wrong but this is a possible reason for the naming of these two lanes.