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Kim Place in Dallington Red Zone – Named after Kim Novak (1933-).Kim Novak was one of America’s most popular movie stars in the late 1950s. One of two streets named by Harry Morgan, a draughtsman with the Ministry of Works. First appears in street directories in 1957. Information supplied in 2005 by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions …

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Ava Place in Dallington Red Zone – Named after Ava Lavinia Gardner (1922-2001). Ava Gardner was an Academy Award nominated American screen actress. One of two streets named by Harry Morgan, a draughtsman with the Ministry of Works. First appears in street directories in 1957. Information supplied in 2006 by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch …

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Tilbury Place in Dallington Red Zone – First appears in street directories 1960. Not much information on the library website and it was probably named after Tilbury in the UK. Not much information on Papers Past. There were sections for sale in 1957. There were a few death notices and a few ads plus in …

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Westminster Street in St Albans and Mairehau – Formerly Green’s Lane and Green’s Road. Named after Green, a local milkman. James Green, of Papanui, is listed in street directories in 1890. Greens Road and part of Shirley Road were amalgamated and re-named Westminster Street. Named after the City of Westminster, a metropolitan borough of London. …

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Gosset Street in St Albans – Named after Archdeacon Charles Hilgrove Gosset (1851- 1923). Gosset was the vicar of Woolston 1891-1902, and from July 1902, vicar of St. Mary’s Anglican Church, Merivale. One of three streets named in 1923 and formed on land that had been originally owned by the Anglican diocese. Sales of land …

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Carrington Street in St Albans – Named after the Very Reverend Charles Walter Carrington (1859- 1941). Carrington was the dean of Christchurch Cathedral 1913- 1927. One of three streets named in 1923 and formed on land that had been originally owned by the Anglican diocese. Sales of land were made for “increased revenue for Diocesan …

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Pascoe Avenue in Mairehau – formerly Shaw Avenue. Shaw Avenue first appears in street directories in 1939. Re-named Pascoe Avenue on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named. Unusual for a cul de sac to be called an avenue as I would have expected it to be place. The council didn’t give a reason …

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Kensington Avenue in Mairehau – Named after Kensington, a district of west and central London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Named because it runs off Westminster Street. First appears in street directories in 1923. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the …

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Fergusson Avenue in Mairehau – Named after General Sir Charles Fergusson (1865-1951). Fergusson was the Governor General of New Zealand 1924-1930. Described as a “new” street in The Press in 1927 when land is advertised for sale there. First appears in street directories in 1930. [His surname is spelt correctly in 1930 but over the …

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Greenwood Close in Mairehau and wasn’t any information on library website either the old or new website. I searched the Ancestry website for anyone with the Greenwood surname but couldn’t find any who had lived in this area. The only entry in Papers Past under Greenwood Close was from the council in 1989 about changing …

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