Burns St – Probably named after Robert (Robbie) Burns (1759-1796). Burns was a Scottish poet. Probably named to continue the theme of “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880.

Not much information from library website. This is a small street and library website says that it is in Sydenham but I normally think of this area as being Spreydon. Mostly older well kept villa style houses with a couple of newer blocks of flats.

St David Street – Formerly Creyke Street. Named after Alfred Richard Creyke (1831-1893). Re-named St David Street in 1909.. Named after the bishopric of St David’s in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

A small amount of information from the library website. Note this St David Street is in Central City and is a one way street that runs from Montreal St to Moorhouse Ave. It isn’t big but then it is named after the smallest city in the UK. Mostly one big car yard here plus areas where there are empty sections where building have been demolished. The car yard is using the empty section for storing cars. There is also a plumbing business here. Correct me if I am wrong but I think that this is where there was a Warehouse shop before the earthquakes. A friend corrected me and it was a Noel Leeming shop that was here.
I have been to St David in Wales and it is a lovely wee place.

Fendall Lane – Named after Walpole Cheshire Fendall (1830– 1913). Named to pay tribute to Fendall whose land, Rural Section 18, 50 acres in Fendall Town, was subdivided to create what is known today as Fendalton. Named in 2015

A small amount of information from the library website. This was a private lane that isn’t even on Google maps yet. It looks like huge property that has been subdivided. I didn’t attempt to walk this one as it just looked like a driveway with one big house at the end. There were possibly other houses but the high fence hid them. my sons had a teacher called Mrs Fendall and I believe her husband was a descendant of this family.I couldn’t afford to live here as you need a million or two to afford these houses. If you want to know more about Walpole Fendall there is a reasonable amount of information online.

A small amount of information from the library website. The Gate – Named after the “Gate”, a term given to the door at the entrance to the Delamain Cellars where the cognac matures. In the Delamain subdivision. Named in 2007.

Modern houses with nice gardens and no footpaths so I really didn’t feel comfortable walking here. Luckily it was a very short street.

Philippe Avenue – Named after Philippe Delamain (d. 1902). Delamain took over management of Delamain & Co, along with his cousins, in 1899. In the Delamain subdivision. Named in 2007.

A wee bit of information from the library website. The street had modern houses on only one side but no footpaths. You could see the backs of the houses from the streets running parallel to this street.What I did like about this street was the reserve that ran down the entire street with little viewing platforms every so many metres. There was a walkway that makes up for no footpath.

Vesper Lane – Named after Vesper, a variety of Delamain Cognac. In the Delamain subdivision. Named in 2007.

Not a lot I can say here. Modern houses with nice gardens with no personality.

Ferdinand Terrace – Named after Henry-Ferdinand Delamain (d. 1899). Delamain took over the cognac producing business in 1865. In the Delamain subdivision. Named in 2007.

Modern houses with nice gardens. There were a couple of houses that looked like up-market versions of a bach and they looked a bit weird. They are the type that win awards these days and you go Why?

Rubicon Place – Named after the Rubicon River, a tributary of the Waimakariri River. This name continues the theme of the adjoining subdivision to the south where the street names used are those of West Coast lakes and reservoirs. Named in 2004.

I found a nearby cache before walking this street. Gilberthorpe School is on one corner and at the end there is empty land which looked as if there was a walkway but it also looked as if there was a private house further along so I didn’t go any further. Google says it is a passive reserve but the Poke stop here had the name of a reserve so very confusing. Why do modern residential streets only have a footpath on one side? Quite nice houses here. I did google our Rubicon River but it didn’t say who had named it and why.

There was nothing on the library website about this street. Waterman Place led to Charlesworth Reserve. Shopping Centre one side and businesses on the other side. The name would have to be from the old days when people and goods were ferried to Christchurch from here. The men who worked the ferries I am assuming would have been called watermen. This street is on the edge of Woolston and practically in the suburb of Ferrymead.

This street wasn’t on the library website. I am assuming that Mallard Place is named after the duck. This place had large new houses that I liked. This is unusual for me as I don’t tend to like modern houses. One house I would loved to have taken a photo of as it was fantastic and I couldn’t work out if it was a modern house built in an old style or an well looked after older house. After googling I found out that this house was built in the 1990s. Photos I found didn’t do it justice and it has had a huge amount of landscaping.
This street is on the edge of Woolston and almost in Ferrymead.