Chevy Place in Hoon Hay – Named on 29 March 1956. First appears in street directories in 1964.

A tiny amount of information from the library website. Very little information on Papers Past and it was mostly ads. It was possibly named after the chevy car but the word also means harass, nag or torment. It also is a hunting cry especially from the Cheviot Hills in the UK. I personally likes the idea of the hunting cry.

It was a new street in 1956 and all houses were built in 1960s. None of the houses stood out for me but the footpath was on both sides of the street which is always a bonus. The gardens here were nice.

Barossa Lane in Hoon Hay – nothing on library website yet the houses here were built in 1990s. Possibly named after the Barossa Valley in South Australia. Wikipedia states that that it is a German word spelt incorrectly and was named after the Battle of Barrosa yet the battle was in Spain. It is a place name in Spain. Confused ?

This was a tiny private lane that runs off Hoon Hay Rd and the houses are all typical Brick houses from 1990s.

Victors Road in Hoon Hay – First appears in street directories in 1957.

A tiny amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find out the reason for the name but highly likely that it was named after a person with the name Victor. I checked Ancestry website but didn’t find anything.

Not a huge amount of information on Papers Past. There were sections for sale in 1955 and in the same year the Hoon Hay Domain was developed. The road was reconstructed in 1964. There were several complaints in 1970 about marauding dogs. In 1984 there was a revocation of the reserve in Victors Rd as it was surplus to requirement. The council planned to sell the land for housing. Most houses on the street were built in the 1950s but there were also several built between 1960s and 1990s. There was a large number of death notices for this street.

The street runs from Sparks Rd to Hoon Hay Park and none of the houses stood out for me but it seemed like a pleasant street.

Samuel St in Hoon Hay – First appears in street directories in 1953.

A tiny amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find out how the street got it’s name and it was possibly a person’s name. I checked Ancestry website and cemetery database with no luck. Not much information on Papers Past and it was described as Crown Land in 1955. Several ads for sections in the1950s. Several death notices plus engagement notices. Several drain complaints in 1960s. There was a house fire in 1971 and another in 1982. There was obviously another house fire recently and this house dated from 1910. Most houses on the street were built in 1950s with several built in 1960s. There is an entrance to Gainsborough Park from this street.

Newland St in Hoon Hay – First appears in street directories in 1957.

A tiny amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find out how it got it’s name. It was possibly named after a place in the UK but equally it looked like a surname. I checked Ancestry website and couldn’t find anyone with that surname living in the area. Not much information on Papers Past and in 1955 it was described as Crown Land being subdivided. There where flooding issues in 1957 and there was a drain nearby called Ballantines Drain. Only 22 houses here and most were built in 1950 but there were a few brick houses from 1990s.

Nothing outstanding here and I didn’t take any photos.

Gainsborough St in Hoon Hay – One of the first streets to be developed in the Hoon Hay area. Families lived in pioneering conditions in small baches while building their own houses in their

spare time. First appears in street directories in 1955. Further information “Brave new life in the suburbs”, The Press, 8 May 1993

A small amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find the article from 1993.

Not many entries on Papers Past apart from birth and death notices plus a few engagement notices. There was mention of it being a new subdivision in 1952 and it included a map of the subdivision. There were flooding problems in 1977 where the residents blamed the hill subdivision for silting up their drains.

The street was possibly named after Gainsborough in the UK. I have hidden a puzzle cache in the park here using details of a painting by Thomas Gainsborough.

None of the houses stood out for me but it looked like a pleasant street. Apart from the park the feature that I liked best was a tree.

Marion St in Hoon Hay – nothing on library website and I was surprised as the houses were built between 1950s and 1970s with one built 2014. I couldn’t find out how it got the name Marion and I suspect it was named after a person but couldn’t find out who. I searched cemetery records and the ancestry website.

Not a lot of information on Papers Past and in 1957 it was a new street. The sections were described as high and dry level sections which is rather a bit amusing considering the flooding issues on this street. There was bad flooding in 1977 and 1989 and the residents blamed the hill subdivision for blocking the drains with silt.

None of the houses stood out for me but there was an interesting letterbox. It looked like a pleasant street and in the 1980s we used to visit someone on this street.

Kevin St in Hoon Hay -Named after Kevin John Blogg. Blogg is the son of Frederick “Fred” Sidney Blogg (1922-2005), the roading contractor who developed the street. First appears in street directories in 1952 as Kelvin Street and appears as Kevin Street in 1953. An error had been made in the paperwork and this was later corrected at the insistence of Fred Blogg. Information supplied in 2008 by Kevin Blogg in an interview with Margaret Harper.

A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street.

Not much information on Papers Papers. In 1950 it is mentioned as a new street being formed and sections were available in 1953. In 1956 the street Kelvin St in Burwood was renamed Robin St to avoid confusion with Kevin St. Apart from ads there wasn’t anything on Papers Past about Kevin Blogg.

Most houses here were built in 1950s but there were houses built in every decade from 1960s onwards. None of the houses stood out for me but the street is full of road cones. At one end there is an entrance to Hoon Hay Park and on the map from 1958 it is called Hoon Hay Domain.

Copenhagen Place in Hoon Hay- Named in 1957. A tiny amount of information from the library website. I assume that the street has been named after Copenhagen in Denmark.

In 1957 the street name was approved for the new street. In 1960s there were sections for sale. The residents blamed the hill subdivisions for silting up the drains and causing flooding in 1977.

There are 16 houses here built between 1950 and 1980. The houses here weren’t really outstanding but I did like the street. Some of the gardens were nice but what I really liked was the interesting and fun decorations outside a house. Another house had lots of stone carvings in the garden and house.

Falsgrave St in Waltham – Probably named after Falsgrave in North Yorkshire. According to the minutes of the Sydenham Borough Council the formation and metalling of this street was completed by 1880. First mentioned in The Press in 1880 in a report of a meeting of the Sydenham Borough Council. First appears in street directories in 1887.

A small amount of information from the library website. There was a huge amount of information on Papers Past. In 1880 the street was described as a private street. In 1881 there was a petition for the forming of the street and then in 1899 the was a report from the Works Committee to say that the street had never been properly constructed or legally made a public road. From 1880s there was a coal depot on this street and there were a huge number ads for the depot. By the 1970s the coal depot site was leased by the Gas Company. The Gas Company building was probably demolished 1982 but I thought that this had happened a lot later than this.

Lots of birth and death notices. There were lots of entries in 1900 about the sanitary condition of the gravel pits and refuse heaps. There was a clay pit that mentioned as creating a stench. Coal dust from the coal depot created a nuisance for the residents. The railway crossing seemed to be have been the scene of many accidents including at least one death. Drainage issues were frequently a problem between stagnant water in Jacksons Creek and flooding in the street. The Tramway company had car sheds here and they were also known as tram sheds. Both canterburystories.nz and discoverywall.nz have photos of the tram sheds and the gasworks. The Christchurch Metropolitan Pipe Band had a new building opened here in 1974. Frequent entries about parking issues when then were games at Lancaster Park.

The street only has businesses here and some of the building are fairly new. I compared the current street view to street view from 2012.