Myrtle Road and Coprosma Road and Hebe Road and Dahlia Drive and Petunia Drive are all new streets that run off Zinnia Way. They are too new to be on the library website but they are on google maps.Information from Council website. Road names have been requested by Awatea Park Limited for road(s) at Awatea …
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Harvard Avenue in the suburb of Hornby /Wigram, Christchurch
Harvard Ave – Named after the Harvard aeroplane. A name from the old airbase preserved when the land was subdivided in 1998 to form the Wigram subdivision. First appears in street directories in 1987. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to this. Houses are on part …
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Isitt Lane in the suburb of Hornby / Wigram, Christchurch
Isitt Lane – Named after Leonard Monk Isitt (1891-1976). Sir Leonard Isitt was a military aviator and leader and aviation administrator. He was based at Sockburn for a time after serving in World War One (1914- 1918). Continues the aviation theme of street names used in the Wigram Skies subdivision. A reasonable amount of information …
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Red Checkers Place in the suburb of Hornby/Wigram, Christchurch
Red Checkers Place – Named after the Red Checkers, the RNZAF aerobatic team. The team frequently performed over Wigram Air Force Base. Continues the theme of naming the streets in the subdivision after military aircraft and/or names having a connection with the former Wigram Air Force Base. The developers sought advice from the Air Force …
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Doppler Place in the suburb of Hornby/ Wigram, Christchurch
Doppler Place -Named after the Pulse-Doppler, a 4D radar system. In the Wigram Skies subdivision where the streets have an aviation theme. Named in 2014. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to it. A small street with modern houses that are mostly built around 2015 to …
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Lightning Close in the suburb of Hornby /Wigram, Christchurch
Lightning Close – Named after the Electric Lightning, a supersonic jet fighter aircraft of the Cold War era. In a further stage of the subdivision of Wigram Base. Continues the theme of using the names of military aircraft for street names in the subdivision. Named in 2001. A wee bit of information from the library …
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Glebe Place in the suburb of Hornby/ Wigram, Christchurch
Glebe Place – not on library website under street names. Couldn’t find any extra information online and it isn’t on QV website. I couldn’t even find real estate ads for it. have walked this tiny street so I know that it does exist and the houses are mostly fairly modern brick houses. I found two …
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Barbara Joan Road in the suburb of Hornby/ Wigram, Christchurch
Barbara Joan Road – Named after Barbara Joan Dellaca, née Lewis, (1952?- 2010). Mrs Dellaca was the wife of Peter Dellaca, owner of the land where the street was developed. Her family wished to “acknowledge Barbara’s history on the site” with the naming of the street. In a subdivision at 158- 160 Awatea Road. Named …
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Rosa Lane, Dellaca Lane, Dominico Lane, Bernina Lane and Brusio Drive in the suburb of Hornby/ Wigram, Christchurch
Rosa Lane and Berina Lane are too new to be on the library website and they aren’t on google maps yet either.Brand new houses on these private lanes and unfinished houses as well.Dellaca Lane and Dominico Lane are too new to be on the library website but are on google maps These are private lanes …
Zinnia Way in the suburb of Hornby/ Wigram, Christchurch
Zinnia Way – too new to be on the library website but is on google maps. Information from council. That the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board resolve to approve the following road names: Zinnia is a genus of plants of the sunflower tribe within the daisy family. Road names have been requested by Awatea Park Limited for …
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