Ribbonwood Place in Hillsborough and nothing on the library website. It is surprising that there is nothing on the library site as this street was developed in 1970 plus there is a house here dating from 1960. There are several houses here dating from 2024 and they are on the corner by Opawa Rd. I couldn’t find any information about the naming of the street on the council website and it was probably named after the ribbonwood tree. Not a lot of information on Papers Past apart from ads for the subdivsion in 1970.

I was surprised to find a residential street in the middle of an industrial area. It was a pleasant street and I really loved one house with it’s garden ornaments. The footpath was on both sides of the streets which I really like.

Foundry Drive in Hillsborough and nothing on library website. Nothing on the council website about the naming of this street. Luckily a bit of local knowledge helped me here and the street is named after Andersons Foundry that used to be at 38 Curries Rd. The business closed in the late 1980s and their equipment was being sold off in 1989. I don’t have a date for when the street was developed but it was possibly in the 1990s. This is an industrial area and I always find that it is best to walk such streets on a Sunday. John Anderson who founded the original foundry is buried in the Addington cemetery. His grave did survive the earthquakes but sadly didn’t survive teenage vandals.

Nuttall Drive in Hillsborough and nothing on either new or old library website.

I couldn’t find out anything about this street and I searched council minutes, Papers Past and Ancestry. I have come up with a theory about the naming of Nuttall Drive and Desi Place but can’t prove it. I searched for details of Des Nuttall with no luck and I can’t prove that the streets were named after him. I checked old maps and there was nothing on maps for 1983 and street view for 2008 shows that the street was well established. There was an article in 2022 about a fire in baled rubbish on this street. This is an industrial area but a few places looked like they are being lived in.

Desi Place – nothing on new or old library website. I couldn’t find out anything about this street. I checked council minutes but that only gave me information about restricting parking on the street. I have come up with a theory about the name of the street but couldn’t find any proof. The street runs off Nuttall Drive and I did find a Des Nuttall but Ancestry and Papers Past didn’t help. I checked old maps and the street wasn’t there in 1983 and street view has it fairly well established in 2008.

I find that Sunday is the best day for walking streets in industrial areas. Obviously it is mostly businesses here but a couple of the properties looked like there are people living in them. There is a footpath on both sides of the street which normally means that it is an older street. I have always frequently driven along Port Hills going to Lyttelton but I can’t remember when this area was developed.

Ketton Place in St Albans – Named after Ketton, a village and civil parish in Rutland in the East Midlands of England. Named because it is near Rutland Street. First appears in street directories in 1970.

A small amount of information on the library website. Most entries were ads for the sale of houses and sections in the late 1960s. A couple of death notices and a couple of engagement notices. The houses here cover every decade from 1950 to 2023. There was a footpath on both sides of the street which I always like. It was a pleasant street but nothing stood out for me so no photos.

Kenwyn Ave in St Albans – Named after Ken and Winston Nicholls, two sons of the developer. Formed on 5 acres of land off Mays Road owned by Percy Stanley Nicholls (d. 1974), a land agent.A Papanui war memorial street. First appears in street directories in 1950. Information supplied in 2006 by Eileen Thomson in an interview with Margaret Harper.

A small amount of information from the library website. I am curious as to why it is Kenwyn and not Kenwin if it is named after his sons. Note there is a place in Cornwall called Kenwyn.

Several entries on Papers Past and in 1948 there was an article about the bus service. From 1950 onwards most of the entries were about the best garden awards. There wee ads for a company called Beatty and Beatty who were an asphalt and concrete business. I was a bit worried about the street’s cooks as there were several oven fires in the 1950s. A few death notices and in 1980s they used to hold a street party every December. In 1953 the street was amalgamated with the city. This street is one of the Papanui Memorial Avenues and there is a plaque hanging from a lamp post on this street. There is no mention in Papers Past about this but it is briefly mentioned on a website about the Memorial Avenues. Trees were planted on the street as part of it being a Memorial Avenue.

The houses here date from 1920 to 2024 which surprised me as the street was supposed to have been developed in 1950. Nearly one third of the houses were built before 1950. I looked at older maps and it is on the map for 1950. Part of the street is on the maps for 1930 and 1941 and it looks like it was part of Mays Rd.

It is a pleasant looking street and many of the older houses are looking lovely. There is a walkway at the end of the street plus a reserve called Rutland Reserve where there is a playground. Outside one house there were free items and I took the books and the Halloween items. I will leave the books at a book exchange and turn the Halloween items into geocaches.

Edited to say that Percy Nicholls as well as being a real estate agent he was a tenor who was in an opera company in the 1920s. He also wrote music and one of his pieces was called Menin Gate Vision.

Mary Carpenter Avenue in Yaldhurst and Hei Hei and it is too new for the library website. Information from the council website – The road names have been chosen in accordance with the theme of Womens Suffrage in the 125th year of celebration of women being granted voting rights. The reason for this theme is that the first women to sign the original petition, Mary Carpenter, lived at the site under development.

Mary Carpenter and her husband did live here and her husband was a farmer. I checked Ancestry and Papers Past but the best information was from several articles written in 2018 about Mary. Best to search under Mary Jane Carpenter to get the correct person. The family claimed that they were possibly related to Bishop Harper as they had an ancestor with the surname Harper. It is highly unlikely and you always have to take family stories with a grain of salt. I found this out when researching my own family tree.

Most houses here were built in 2020 and are in Yaldhurst. There are a few houses still being built and they are in Hei Hei. I had to check maps as the valuation website was a bit confusing.

The houses didn’t really stand out for me and but there is a nice wide footpath. Pity it is a shared footpath with cyclists. There is a walkway that leads to a reserve plus another walkway that goes nowhere. I chatted with a local and he didn’t know if it would eventually become a proper walkway. A few houses here had Christmas lights so it would be very colourful at night.

Hunia Place in Yaldhurst and too new for the library website. Information from the council website – Huhana (Susan) Enright nee Hunia (1902-1981) is the Great, Great Grandmother of the developer, and is from Pawarenga in the Hokianga (Far North). Susie was born on 21 March 1902, of the Te Uri o Tai hapu and of the Te Rarawa iwi – part of the greater Ngāpuhi tribe. Susie was one of 10 children, three of whom died in the 1918 flu epidemic.

Not much information on Ancestry or Papers Past.

This street doesn’t have any houses yet and I couldn’t walk the street as it is fenced off. I will have to come back to this area and walk it when it was more developed.

Arabella Crescent in Yaldhurst and too new for the library website. Information from the council website – Arabella Andersen was one of the first signatories of the Suffrage Petition and lived nearby. Checked Papers Past and Ancestry. Note her surname was spelt Anderson and there were two women with the same name who signed the Petition. They were mother and daughter. Sadly the daughter died suddenly in 1896 aged 24 from a perforated ulcer. I couldn’t find any evidence that the family ever lived in this area. Charles and Arabella Anderson lived in Rangiora and Arabella moved to Christchurch after her husband died. She was living in Merivale when she died.

Most houses here were built in 2020 and I didn’t take any photos. There is a walkway that leads to a reserve. I didn’t like this street as there wasn’t a footpath so I had to walk on the road.

Ada Wells Court in Yaldhurst – too new for the library website. Information from the council website – the first female Christchurch City Councillor. The road names have been chosen in accordance with the theme of Womens Suffrage in the 125th year of celebration of women being granted voting rights. Te Ara – Dictionary of New Zealand Biography has information about Ada Wells. There is also a Wikipedia page for Ada Wells.

Only a couple of half finished houses here at this stage