Albert Tce – Named after Albert Ernest Small (1863?- 1941). In electoral rolls of 1914, Small, a fruitgrower, is listed living at 69 Albert Terrace.
A small amount of information on the library website. It goes from Centaurus Rd roundabout where there is a garage and a shop. Another mixture of new and old houses with most of the new houses being closer to the hills. The street ends at the entrance to a track called Gorge Track. St Martins School is here and I took photos as it is being rebuilt. The new building is so boring and I must try and find photos of the original school building as it was a fun and quirky building. I did manage a few photos here and to me the brown wooden house with black trim is really ugly. One older house looks like it needs some serious work done on it. Got a good photo from the track. Note, I haven’t loaded the photos onto this website.

Hillsborough Tce – Formerly Victoria Road. Named after HM Queen Victoria (1819- 1901). Re-named Hillsborough Terrace. Named because it runs through the suburb of Hillsborough which, in turn, was named after the dairy farm of Edward Garland (1824-1893).

Interesting information from the library website. Again quite a few rebuilt houses especially the end of the street near the hills. A mixture of brick, summerhill stone and wooden houses. One house had a huge garden and I suspect that it used to be a separate property before the earthquakes.There was a tennis court fairly near Centaurus Rd end.This is a long street and it goes from Centaurus Rd to the car park for Mt Vernon Park. I only managed one photo as the road was busy and being a nice day there were a lot of people out and about plus there were no outstanding houses.

April Place – Part of Willock Street April Place was named in 1997 at the request of residents.
Nothing much on the library website and I didn’t manage to get a photo. Again mostly rebuilt modern and boring houses.

The Crescent – nothing on library website for this street. All the houses were brand new here and all but one of them looked very modern. There was one empty section still. The older looking house was lovely and I ended up talking to the owner. The house was rebuilt after the earthquakes but he decided to rebuild it exactly the same as the original house. I would love to have taken a photo but didn’t feel comfortable asking him if I could do this. The photos are of the empty section and of the track leading down to the street.

Charlene Place – First appears in street directories in 1983.
Very little information on the library website. This street is divided from Leonard Place by a drain and I suspect that both streets were named by the developer after family members. There was one older house but the others looked new. One had an impressive garden but no photos. Library website has this street in Hillsborough whereas Leonard Place which is next to it the library website has as being in St Martins.

Leonard Place – Leonard Street first appears in street directories in 1950. Becomes Leonard Place in 1979.
Very little information on the library website. A very small street in Hillsborough/ St Martins and the houses here all looked new so I am guessing that they are all rebuilds. There was one where I would loved to have taken a photo but the occupants were all in the garden. It was an ugly house that looked more like a toilet block than a house. The photo that I did get was of a row of houses which looked more like a motel than houses. These houses were on the border of Leonard Place and Charlene Place. The streets were divided by a drain.

Vernon Tce – Named after Helen Vernon Morten, née Downes, (1834?- 1906). Helen Morten was the wife of Richard May Morten (1823-1909), a sheepfarmer. In the 1880s Morten subdivided land in St Martins, land which he had previously farmed.

A small amount of information from the library website.
Mostly new houses here and they would have been rebuilt after the earthquakes. Still some empty sections from where houses have been demolished. There is a fridge library in an old stone bus shelter at the beginning of the street and I forgot to get a photo today.The houses on one side have fairly high retaining walls. There was one old wooden house that looked original but I couldn’t get a photo as the owner was standing in the driveway. A couple of fun letterboxes here.

Rapaki Road – Formerly Whites Road. Named after William White (1824- 1899). Re-named Rapaki Road. A very old roadway used by the early settlers as an alternative way to Christchurch from Lyttelton. Named Whites Road because White, a contractor and partowner of the Mount Pleasant sheep-run, worked on developing the road. Re-named Rapaki Road in 1914. J. Longton, president of the St Martin’s Burgesses Association, asked the Heathcote County Council for the renaming. He said that Rapaki Road means the place of the sun, the estate close to the road was Rapaki and the Rapaki tea-rooms would be established there.
That was more information from the library website than I was expecting. Obviously this road leads to the Rapaki Track. Many of the houses are new because the original houses were damaged in the earthquakes. A couple of the houses had wee tracks for a cart for taking items up to the house. I did like the chair in the tree. Would be perfect for sitting and reading. Only one car parked on this steep road knew how to park properly.