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.

Domain Tce – formerly Mill Road. Named Domain Terrace because it runs along the north boundary of the Spreydon Domain. Mill Road first appears in street directories in 1902. Re-named Domain Terrace which is first mentioned in The Press in 1915.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I found the same article on Papers Past about the renaming of the street but weirdly both names were used for the street until 1940. There are houses here from every decade and many of the older houses are gorgeous. There was one Art Deco house and it was for sale. Tempting. The Coronation Hall is looking very sad and I found an article about the laying of the foundation stone by G Witty in October 1911.
I didn’t find any information about a mill but this street is close to the Heathcote River so it is possible that there was a water mill here.
Lots of people in the Domain today. I vaguely recall that my sons had a friend who lived on this street. There is also a family tree connection to this street but I think it could be the ex-husband’s family tree.

Clent Lane – Named after Clent, a village in north Worcestershire. The Lyttelton 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 1979.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website and not a lot that I can add to it. There are 36 single story units here that were built in 1977 and they are owned by the City Council as social housing. Found this information from an article or press release from the council about the units.
I didn’t walk this streets for obvious reasons.

I can say that I have visited Clent in the UK as I wanted to visit a telephone box library that was in the village. Sadly this wee library was destroyed by an arsonist in 2014.I will have to see if I can find a photo of the telephone box library. If you look at a map of the area surrounding Hagley Hall which is just up the road from Clent you will see some very familiar Spreydon names.

Cobham Street – Named after a Viscountcy in the Peerage of Great Britain. Each Viscount Cobham holds the subsidiary title of Baron Lyttelton 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 1904. A “standing crop of oats” there is advertised for sale in the Star in 1904.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website and really a lot that I can add to it. Couldn’t find anything on Papers Past about selling sections. Did find an article dated 1915 about giving permission to plant trees on the street.

Houses here are mostly wooden or brick and are from every decade from 1910 to 2015. There was a complex called Cobham Village and googling gave me the information that it is social housing owned by South West Baptist church. This church is on the corner of Cobham St and Lyttelton St.
A pleasant street but nothing really stood out for me.

Rosebery Street – Named after Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929). The earl was British Foreign Secretary 1886 and 1892-1895 and British Prime Minister for one year and 109 days 1894-1895. Land for sale in the “Rosebery Street subdivision” is advertised in The Press in 1901. First appears in street directories in 1904.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website and not a lot that I can add. Papers Past have sections for sale from 1901 to 1907. Also ads for new houses in 1902.

The houses on this street are a mixture ages from 1910 to 2000. Many are older wooden villas. Some are in better condition than others. A couple have had a form of cladding put over the original wood and they just didn’t look right and I didn’t manage a photo of the one that really looked odd with the cladding. There was another house that had been done up really nicely but owner was working on the house so I couldn’t manage a photo. Many of the nicer houses were behind high fences or had mature trees blocking my view. One older house looked really rundown. Decent sized sections here and I could just imagine a developer wanting to buy up as they could put so many townhouses on just one section. Hopefully that won’t happen.

Somers Place – Probably named after Thomas Somers Cocks (1815-1899). Cocks was the banker to John Robert Godley and also to the Canterbury Association. First appears in street directories in 1943.

A small amount of information from the library website and I believe that it is incorrect. Papers Past had nothing on their website about this street. I believe that the street is named after Baron Somers who died in July 1944. He was the Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth from 1941.

I didn’t manage any photos here. Most of the houses date from 1940s and were wooden boring square houses. Right at the dead end of the street were newer houses built in 2000 to 2006 and these are on leasehold land and belong to Stepping Stone Trust.