Highlight Lane in Heathcote – Named after Highlight, a pony. Highlight is the name of the Heathcote Valley Riding School’s first pony. Named in 2003

A tiny amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name. Looks like the riding school has been operating since 1983.

Most the houses here were built in 2005 and I didn’t walk this street as it looked like a driveway. The fence beside it also had Deavoll Place on it.

Malthouse Lane in Heathcote – Named because the street is adjacent to the Malting Company site. Named in 1997.

A tiny amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. The houses here were built in 1990 and I didn’t walk the street as there wasn’t a footpath and it looked like a private driveway.

I spent a bit of time googling images to remind myself of what it like before the maltworks were demolished. Used to easily see them from the school train and I am sure that the buildings were still there when my niece lived nearby. I found a fantastic article written by Barrie Woods about the maltworks and I am going to have to find out what else he has written as I have enjoyed reading the articles.

Fredrica Lane in Heathcote – Named after the daughter of the landowner where the street was developed. Developed at 140-144 Port Hills Road by Landform NZ. Named in 2008.

A small amount of information from the library website. I have worked out who the street was named after but because she is probably still a teenager I won’t be naming her but she does prefer to be known as Freddie. Another street that I am surprised that I hadn’t already researched as I had walked this part of Port Hills Road in 2020. That was the year when I had taken a bus to Heathcote and then walked home to Addington. The houses here were built from 2000 onwards and I only partially walked it.

Carinya Lane in Heathcote – Named after the historic orchard from which the subdivision was developed. The name is aboriginal for “habitat”- Named in 1997. Named after the historic orchard from which the subdivision was developed. The name is

aboriginal for “habitat” or from an Australian source “a happy, peaceful home” Not known which Aboriginal language the word came from.

A small amount of information from the library website and the new library website included the happy, peaceful home.

Not much information on Papers Past and there were lots of ads for the orchard that was at 154 Port Hills Road. I couldn’t find out the owner of the orchard.

I didn’t actually walk this street as it looked more like a private driveway and didn’t have a footpath. It runs off Mauger Drive which I walked in October 2020 so it is another street that I am surprised that I hadn’t already researched.

Edited as I managed to find out that William Thomas Thompson owned the orchard. Papers Past had an article where he was claiming money from the Heathcote County Council in 1958 as they had cut down his hedge which was a windbreak for his fruit trees. The council were widening the road and he was also claiming compensation for his land that was taken for the road widening. In 1925 he was upset because his war disability pension was stopped. He died in 1976 aged 95 and is buried in Lincoln Cemetery. He was born in New Zealand to Irish parents. His death notice doesn’t mention his wife and it looks like she left him sometime between 1948 and 1952.

Ardtrea Lane in Heathcote – Named in 1997 – A right-of-way at 136 Port Hills Road.

A tiny amount of information from the library website and the old library website only had that it was named in 1997 but the new website had added in the information about the right of way. It is actually unusual for the new website to have extra information.

I found extra information in a page called Heathcote Lovely Lanes written by Barrie Woods and his information is – On Wednesday 2 July 1997 a meeting of the Hagley Ferrymead Community Board agreed “that the right-of way at 136 Port Hills Road be named Ardtrea Lane”.Ardtrea is a parish in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland from which the lane takes its name.

I am very grateful to Barrie and it saves me from looking up the notes from that meeting. OK I couldn’t help myself and I did look at the minutes from that meeting. I looked at Google Maps and I hadn’t visited Ardtrea in Northern Island.

I still can’t figure out why I didn’t do this street in January 2020 when I walked several streets in the area. I would have walked past it in 2020. I only partially walked the street as it feels more like a private driveway. Most of the houses were built in 1990 but one was built in 1960 and is probably the original house at 136 Port Hills Road.

Ferrymead Terrace in Ferrymead and nothing on the library website. I would have expected this street to have been in Mt Pleasant or Heathcote. The street was obviously named after the area Ferrymead and Ferrymead means meadow by ferry.

Strange that there wasn’t anything on the library website as the street is mentioned in Papers Past in 1948 when houses in the area were damaged by a fire outbreak in St Andrews hills. A house at 11 Ferrymead Terrace was damaged and the house was owned by Mr S C Wing. This house was built in 1920. Not a lot of information on Papers Past and just a couple of death notices. Between the 1960s and 1980s there were lots of ads for the selling of fruit especially plums at 7 Ferrymead Terrace. I checked out Mr Wing on ancestry as I knew his name. I don’t recall ever meeting him but I own a spinning wheel that he made. He was well known in spinning groups for making spinning wheels and my mother-in-law knew him.

I checked old maps and Ferrymead Terrace isn’t on these maps and I checked up to 1960. Sydney Wing was also a furniture maker and his ads gave an address of Heathcote Bridge. Mrs Cannon also gave Heathcote Bridge as an address.

Census records and War Records for Sydney Wing before 1948 had his address as Bridle Path Road. I couldn’t find any information for a street name change but I suspect that Ferrymead Terrace used to be part of Bridle Part Road.

The valuation website that I use had only 5 houses on the street dated between 1920 and 1950 but when you walk the street it looks like more houses than that are on the street. This website isn’t always the most reliable. It was an interesting street to walk as there isn’t a footpath and it is fairly narrow with a steep bank on one side. I remembered an article about a car having gone over the bank from the street. Took me a while to find the article and it had happened in 2020. I believe that some of the houses have garages on Cannon Hill Crescent.

For a small street I took lots of photos and my best photos of the houses I took from across the river as you can’t see the houses properly from the actual street. You would have to be fit to live on this street going by the steps that led to the houses. These same houses probably had garages on Cannon Hill Crescent. The houses here would have great views but I wouldn’t feel safe as personally I think that you would be at risk of landslides. Parking would also be a problem plus when I got back to my car I saw that someone had parked so that they were blocking the entrance to the street.

Tussock Lane in Woolston- Named because of the tussocks on the Port Hills. In a subdivision developed by Roc Mac Ltd. Named in 2005.

A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. I was surprised that I hadn’t already walked this street as I had already walked and researched Settlers Crescent. It is a short street with businesses on it but I suspect that people live above some of the businesses. I checked back on street view and there has been a sign with the street name since 2012 and I had walked Settlers Crescent in 2019. I know that I said that I wouldn’t walk anymore streets until I had caught up with my research but I felt like a walk today. I am obviously feeling better after the head cold that I was given as a Christmas present.

Moorpark Place in Ilam – First appears in street directories in 1968

A tiny amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find out how the street got it’s name. It is possible that the property on Ilam Road where this street was developed had an orchard with Moorpark apricot trees or they called the property Moorpark. There were ads in 1950 for the sale of the large 5 acre property which included a large house and a tennis court and that it was suitable for subdividing. Mr A D Harris was selling because he had purchased another property so it would have been whoever purchased the Ilam Road property who would have subdivided it. Papers Past had lots of ads in 1964 and 1965 for sections in the Moorpark subdivision. The last section sold in 1969. A few death notices and street garden competition mentions.

All the houses here were built in the 1960s and none of them stood out for me. It looked like a pleasant street with nice gardens but I suspect that parking could be an issue during weekdays.

I didn’t intend to walk a street yesterday but I had arrived too early to meet geocaching friends for breakfast and this street was nearby. I did take notice of one house as it is having renovations done but it looked like the garage is being turned into living spaces. I checked street view and I was correct.

Joseph Harrap Hopkins was baptised on 2nd July 1837 at Kimcote and Walton in Leicestershire. His parents were Thomas and Eliza Hopkins and Eliza’s maiden name was Harrap. They were married on 27th June 1836 at St Margarets Leicester. She was born in July 1813 at Frolesworth to Joseph and Ann Harrap. Joseph Harrap Hopkins left Plymouth on the ship Roman Emperor on 22nd December 1862 and arrived in Lyttelton on 30th March 1863. He was a single man and when you search for passenger lists for Roman Emperor AI gives you some really strange information. Joseph was possibly working for a shopkeeper in East London in 1861 which will explain why he opened a shop in Ferry Road. It was a freehold property so he must have had some money. He married Louisa Parsons here in Christchurch in 1863. Joseph was a busy man as he also opened the first hotel in New Brighton called Hopkins Hotel. He operated a paddle steamer on the Avon River to take visitors to the seaside and this was before the trams started operating. He objected to the tolls on the Ferry Bridge and these were eventually scrapped. He was a member of the Woolston Borough Council and the Woolston School Committee. Was a member of the Woolston Cricket Club. He ran the Post Office from his shop on Ferry Road and he objected to the name Ferry Road Post Office and wrote to the Postmaster General and had it changed to Woolston Post Office. Nothing on Papers Past said why the district was given the name Woolston and the first mention of this name was in 1870. Joseph died in 1910 and is buried in the Addington Cemetery. He was living at Hagley Road in Lower Riccarton when he died and I have no idea where that street was but when his wife died in 1923 she was living on Peterborough Street. Some of his family came to New Zealand as a sister is mentioned in his death notice.

The Wikipedia entry for Woolston is interesting as it claims that it was named after Woolston in Southampton where Joseph Harry Hopkins was born. Joseph was not born in Southampton and there are two places in England called Woolston and neither are anywhere near where Joseph was born or where he lived. There was possibly a place called Woolston near where he grew up but it no longer exists. It wasn’t easy finding out about Joseph Harrap Hopkins and it took me all afternoon. I did have a quick walk to Addington Cemetery to find his grave.

Hopkins Street in Woolston – Formerly Halfway Lane and Coronation Street. Named to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII (1841-1910) in 1902. Re-named Hopkins Street. Named after Joseph Harrap or Harrop Hopkins (1837-1910). Halfway Place first appears in street directories in 1894 as a blind street running off Ashbourne Street (later part of Ferry Road). Coronation Street first appears in The Press in 1903 when the road surveyor advised the Woolston Borough Council that at present there were no funds available for the “assistance or construction” of Coronation Street. Re-named Hopkins Street in 1922. Hopkins arrived in Canterbury on the Roman Emperor in 1863. He kept a store on Ferry Road called Hopkins Emporium and also built the first hotel in New Brighton. [Some records spell his middle name as Harrop; others as Harrap.]

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Not sure why they named the street after Joseph Hopkins as it sounds like his shop was miles away from where this street is. Should have been named after a William Correll as he seemed to have owned most of the land in this area and sold it off to be subdivided. The information about Joseph Hopkins on the Ancestry website doesn’t match up the wikipedia page about the naming of the suburb. Joseph Hopkins was a very common name.

Nothing on Papers Past about Halfway Lane. The first entry for Coronation Street was in 1903 where the council said that work had commenced on forming the new street. In 1908 William Correll was selling 4 acres of land adjoining Woolston School and that the land was suitable for subdividing. In 1913 William Correll had shops and a dwelling available for rent. These shops would have been near McKenzie Ave corner and there are still shops there. William Correll was selling more land in 1919 and I suspect that this land was purchased by the government. In 1919 worker dwellings were to be built on the street and each dwelling would be on a quarter acre section and all the cottages would be made from concrete and designed by the Labour Dept architect Mr Temple. In 1923 there were complaints about the drainage issues with these cottages. A fairly dramatic headline about houses in Woolston Swamp. The health dept visited the houses and said that the Public Works dept were responsible for the drainage problem. The Public Works dept said that they were still waiting for a reply from Wellington. More sections for sale in 1937 and 1943 from the Public Trust Office. There was a poultry farm for sale in 1955. Mr A Smith’s garage is mentioned in 1959 and I think that this was on the corner by Ferry Road. In 1990 shops including the fish and chip shop along with a flat was for sale. In 1994 the Woolston Rugby Football League Club had a liquor license approved.

Lots of ads plus death notices over the years but not a lot of information considering the age of the street. Woolston Primary School is on the corner of Ferry Road and Hopkins Street but it was hardly mentioned. Woolston school has been around since 1870 but possibly had a Ferry Road address. I went to Woolston Primary School in 1967 as my sister was teaching at the school. It made after school care easier as my younger brother and I were too young to be left alone after school. The school looks very different these days to how it looked when I went there.

I walked this street last month and over half the houses are older houses and date from 1910. There are a few from 1990s onwards. The Woolston Rugby Club rooms are still there and look like they are still in use. The shops near McKenzie Ave corner are still there but the fish and chip shop was demolished after the earthquakes. It has since been rebuilt. I looked at street view from 2012 and the fish and chip shop just looked like a lean to against the shop but now it is a separate building. Still very tiny. When I think about it the street probably hasn’t changed much from when I used to walk down it from the school to a friend’s house on McKenzie Ave.