Champagne Ave in Yaldhurst – Named after champagne, a sparkling wine. Continues the theme of the Delamain family used in the first stage of the Delamain subdivision. Named in 2008.

A small amount of information from the library website. I walked this street on Friday and there is a reserve here which I want to go back to and explore. It was too hot on Friday to extend my walk. Nothing stood out for me here. Most houses built in 2010 and 2013 with brand new houses being built at one end of the street. Modern houses with mostly immaculate lawns. There wasn’t even a very ugly house but what it did have which is unusual for a modern street is a footpath on both sides of the street. No photos

Pacers Lane in Yaldhurst and it too new to be on library website. The name is likely to be because the Delamain family owned racehorses. I didn’t actually walk this tiny street as it was full of trucks as houses are still being built here. About 3 or 4 houses are completed but I am not sure if anyone is living in them yet.

Division St in Riccarton – Named because it marked the boundary between the jurisdictions of the Riccarton Road Board and the Selwyn County Council. “The division road” is first mentioned in the Star in 1877 when the Avon Road Board discussed taking it over as a public road. First appears in street directories in 1904.

A small amount of information from the library website. The street was known by both names of Division Road and Division Street until at least the 1930s.

Lots of information on Papers Past. In 1881 and 1906 there were sections for sale and more sections available in 1910 and these ones were known as Robinson’s subdivision. From 1914 onwards there were complaints about the state of the bridge across the creek and in 1926 it was repaired. In 1916 there were complaints about the herding of cattle to the Addington Saleyards but other residents didn’t think that it was an issue. 1928 a resident was given a permit to keep a pig. It is hard to imagine these days that this area was considered to be a rural area. Residents in 1936 requested that the road be tarsealed. In 1951 there was an obituary for Charles Buckett a noted gymnast and athlete. He also started Bucketts Gymnasium. He lived on this street. In 1956 Beaths opened a shop on corner of Division St and Riccarton Rd. In 1957 the subdivision at the corner of Division St and Riccarton Rd was zoned as commercial sections.

The decades of 1960s and 1970s was mostly about Riccarton Mall. In 1963 the Shopping Centre plan was before the appeal board. In 1965 there was a description of the planned new mall. In 1970 it was planned to extend the mall by demolishing houses in Division St. In 1973 a resident objected to the mall expansion.

Division St used to cut through the Mall and shops were mostly one side and car parking on the other side. There was one lonely occupied house in the middle of the car park and they were refusing to sell their house. I worked in the area in the 1990s and can very clearly remember this house but can’t remember if the owner was male or female. The Mall owners must have been so happy when they eventually died and they could get their hands on the property. Division St these days is split into two by the Mall with a short stretch from Riccarton Rd. Then it is the Mall before you come to the rest of the street. A few older houses from 1910s and 1920s near the Mall but they aren’t outstanding looking places. The rest of the street is mostly flats built in 1970s and 1990s. Lots of cars parked here as staff from the Mall use this street for parking. There is now a cycleway at the corner of Division St and Elizabeth St and this cuts the street in half. There also used to be a dairy on this corner but it is closed. I wouldn’t like to live here. The fake homeless man who begs for money at the Mall lives in one of the flats on this street.

I actually walked this street a couple of weeks ago when I was geocaching.

Holbrook Way in Westmorland – Named after Holbrook in Derbyshire, England. Named to continue the theme in the subdivision of naming streets after places in historic Westmorland in England, since 1974 part of Cumbria. Named in 2005.

A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to it. Most houses here were built in the 1990s and it looked like a pleasant street. Footpath on both sides of the street which is always a plus. There are two entrances to the walkway from this street. I had walked the track and came out at the top end of this street. There is a big drain in the middle of the street at this end. Cashmere Stream runs behind part of the street.

Hamish Place in Westmorland – First appears in street directories in 1993. A tiny amount of information from the library website and it is obviously named after a person but I couldn’t find out who they were. Because it is close to Francis Reserve I attempted to research the Francis family. Spent quite a bit of time on Papers Past. The brothers W J and B J Francis both owned land in the area. B G Francis was farming the property that originally belonged to Cracroft Wilson. The brothers in 1973 purchased Worsley Spur from a Mr Flemming and they said that it was originally from the estate of their father who had died 14 years earlier. Nothing on ancestry website for them and I couldn’t find out what W J or B G stood for.

This was a tiny street with a footpath on only one side of it and nothing stood out for me. The houses were all built in 1990s. If you walk the track behind the houses you get a good view of their backyards.

Chaston Close in Westmorland – Probably named after Jack Chaston. Chaston is listed in the 1970 telephone directory living at 255 Cashmere Road. The street was named after “a Mr J. Chaston, one of the early residents of Westmorland”. Developed on the Worsley Farm subdivision. Named in 2006.

A small amount of information on the library website. In 1976 Jack Chaston applied to subdivide land at 247 Cashmere Rd. In 1961 he was living on Purau Tce when he applied for a land agents licence. In 1972 he was director of Cashmere Nursery. He died in 2015 aged aged 95 and his death notice doesn’t mention any wives but he probably married three times.

Only three houses on this tiny street which were built in 1990 but looks like more houses are being built. I didn’t actually walk it as there wasn’t a footpath. The entrance is very close Cambrian Close and I just took the one photo for both streets.

Cambrian Close in Westmorland and nothing on library website. I didn’t walk this one as it didn’t have a footpath and just looked a driveway to a couple of houses. There are actually 7 houses built in 1980s and 1990s.

Mervyn Drive in Avondale – formerly Mervyn Street. Named after Mervyn John Horne (1924- 1983)Horne was secretary of the Christchurch Drainage Board 1970- 1983. The Christchurch Drainage Board owned an area of low-lying land in Avondale which they filled up with dredgings from the river so the land could be subdivided and built on. The Board named the streets formed there. Named on 21 November 1984. Mervyn Street first appears in street directories in 1987. Becomes Mervyn Drive in 1991. Information supplied in 2007 by Paul Baldwin, Christchurch City Council in an interview with Margaret Harper.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. The few houses that are left on this street were mostly built in the 1980s and 1990s. At least 75% of the houses have been demolished on this street and the land is in the red zone. When I was walking along I came to a park called Avondale Park and I thought to myself that it would be a great place to hide a cache. I then realised that I have been to the park before to find a cache that is hidden here.

Ogilvie Place in Avondale red zone – Named after Gavin Ogilvie (1930?- 1982). Ogilvie was a senior engineer with the Christchurch Drainage Board before forming Davis Ogilvie & Partners in 1960. The Christchurch Drainage Board owned an area of low-lying land in Avondale which they filled up with dredgings from the river so the land could be subdivided and built on. The Board named the streets formed there and former board and staff members of the Drainage Board were among those honoured in the naming. At the time of naming of the streets it was intended to have 11 streets and cul-de sacs in the new subdivision. Named on 21 November 1984. First appears in street directories in 1987. Information supplied in 2007 by Paul Baldwin, Christchurch City Council, in an interview with Margaret Harper.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. With the description for many of the streets in this area of low lying and filled with dredgings from the river no wonder they are now in the red zone.

Going by street view from before the earthquakes it looked like it was a pleasant street with fairly big houses. As a side note the author J M Barrie used the name Gavin Ogilvie when he first started writing.

Hulverstone Dr in Avondale red zone – Named after Hulverstone on the Isle of Wight. In a subdivision between the Avon River, west of the Bower Bridge and the northern end of the Avondale Golf Course of a 50 acre farm formerly belonging to Stewart Clendinning Hampton (1908-1993). Developed from 1969 by Merrit-Beazley Homes Ltd. All the streets are named after places on the Isle of Wight. Named on 16 June 1975. The legal process for stopping Hulverstone Drive was completed by August 1999. The physical stopping took place in February 2000 in conjunction with the construction of the bridge.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Originally the street ran from Avondale Rd to Wainoni Rd without a break but it was then split in half by a bridge. The area surrounding the bridge is called Cedarwood Reserve. When walking it yesterday I didn’t realise that it is a reserve as the entire street is in the red zone. Not many mentions on Papers Past apart from a few ads in 1977 for selling houses. In 1976 there was a Housing Corp subsidy of $59,700 for a rental housing project for the aged.

Looking at street view from before the earthquakes it looks like it was a pleasant street with some nice houses. The houses were only on one side of the street as the river was on the other side. There was a walkway that ran beside the river. Street view after the earthquakes and the road was a mess. The bridge still has traffic going over it but walking this street there is a walkway that goes under the bridge. I am sure that the bridge is safe