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St Monica Lane – Named to continue the street name theme begun by St Johns Street. In the Cavendish Grove subdivision off St Lukes Street. Named in 2012.A wee bit of information from the library website. A new subdivision and my photo is from the park like area. Brand new houses but the gardens were …

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St Lukes Street – Named to continue the street name theme begun by St Johns Street. First appears in street directories in 1981.The same wee bit of information from the library website as for the other streets I walked today. A mixture of older repaired houses and rebuilds. The rebuilds were similar to houses that …

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St Thomas Place – Named to continue the street name theme begun by St Johns Street. Developed off St Lukes Street. Named in 1997. A wee bit of information from the library website. I only managed one photo here and it just doesn’t show the scale of the houses here. The houses looked brand new …

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St Marks St – Named to continue the street name theme begun by St Johns Street. Named on 21 May 1972. First appears in street directories in 1981.A wee bit of information from the library website.This tiny street in Woolston had a big empty section at the end of it. The houses were a mixture …

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Mollymawk Place – Named “to continue a theme already established in the Brookhaven subdivision”. In a subdivision by Enterprise Homes. Named in 1999.Small amount of information on the library website. Modern houses of either tin looking weatherboard or cement fibre. I ended up chatting to a resident who told me that most of the houses …

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Ti Rakau Drive -The developer said he wanted the name Te Rakau Drive, meaning cabbage tree, but checks turned up several different meanings for “rakau”, none of which was “cabbage tree”. Named in 1995 That was interesting information from the library website. A quick google gave me the information that Ti Rakau means cabbage tree. …

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Shearwater Drive – nothing on library website about this street. Many of the streets in this area had bird names, Library website had this area as Woolston but it was closer to Ferrymead. The houses all looked new but I believe that many of them are rebuilds. Ti Rakau Reserve had an entrance on this …

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Deyell Crescent – Named after Joseph Deyell (1867?-1936) – The stables of J. Deyell and Co. were at the corner of Deyell Crescent and Strickland Street in 1940, the year it first appears in street directories. This is the sort information that I like to get from the library website as it gives a bit …

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Riccarton Avenue formerly Middle Park Road and Riccarton Road. Named after Riccarton, a village and parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Named to continue the theme of naming Riccarton streets after places in Ayrshire, Scotland, from whence the Deans family originated. A small amount of information from the library website and I have nothing to add. …

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Deans Avenue – West Belt and West Town Belt. Also part of Rolleston Avenue for a time. Named after the Deans family. Named by the Canterbury Association surveyors who laid out the boundaries of the original city within roadways called “belts” or “town belts”. The other three Town Belts were re-named in 1904. The suggestion …

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