Galilee Lane – nothing on library website for this street. Looks like the street is still being developed and my photo is from the street overlooking Galilee Lane. My best guess for the naming of this street is that the previous owner of the nearby Gethsemane Gardens named the street. Another street with great views.
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Starwood Lane in the suburb of Clifton, Christchurch
Starwood Lane – Named by one of the landowners, apparently in reference to the night sky, and the surrounding trees. Named Starwood Lane on 20 August 1979. Intended to be named Baughan Lane after Blanche Edith Baughan (1869?-1958), a resident of Panorama Road. She was a writer and secretary of the New Zealand branch of …
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Clifton Bay in the suburb of Clifton, Christchurch
Clifton Bay – The stretch of the main road between Clifton Terrace and Nayland Street. Named in 1961.A small amount of information from the library website. Between the Main Rd and Clifton Bay is a wee garden called Sumner Coronation Garden. A few older wooden houses here. Google maps was a bit weird here as …
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Lucienne Place in the suburb of Hillsborough, Christchurch
Lucienne Place was another wee street that wasn’t mentioned on the library website. This street ran off Port Hills Rd and it had a mixture of housing styles. A couple of houses even had a look of Housing Corp style of houses. I am talking about older ones from the State Advances days. I did …
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Hilldale Place in the suburb of Hillsborough, Christchurch
Hilldale Place was a cul de sac off Brabourne St and again nothing on the library website about this street. The street was a T- shaped street with brick or summerhill stone houses mostly from the 1960s? It wasn’t even a hill so the name is a bit of a puzzle. The photo that I …
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Brabourne Street in the suburb of Hillsborough, Christchurch
Brabourne St in the suburb of Hillsborough was not mentioned on the library website or in Gordon Ogilvie’s book. It was a fairly ordinary street of brick or summerhill stone houses. It would have to be a 1950s to 1960s subdivision as when I worked for Mrs Popes in the 1970s my manager lived on …
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Prisk Place in the suburb of Hillsborough, Christchurch
Prisk Place – Named after the Prisk family, who ran a stone quarry in Hillsborough where this street was developed. Samuel Prisk (1839-1913) was a bricklayer of Hillsborough. First appears in street directories in 1964.A little bit of information from the library website. Mostly brick or summerhill stone houses and I only managed one photo …
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The Kilns is in the suburb of Hillsborough, Christchurch
The Kilns – Named because the street was formed on the site of the Glenmore Brick & Tile Co. Ltd. First appears in street directories in 1991.Nothing much on the library website. I didn’t actually walk this tiny street as it came across as a private lane and it had an entrance that had a …
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Horotane Valley Road in the Heathcote Valley, Christchurch
Horotane Valley Road – Named because it runs through the Horotane Valley. Named by John Flinders Scott (1876-1941), a pastoral farmer, who subdivided land in this area. First mentioned in The Press in 1933.Not much information from the library website and Papers Past didn’t have much either. This is a huge market garden area and …
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Butts Valley Road in the Heathcote Valley, Christchurch
Butts Valley Road – Developed by John Flinders Scott (1876-1941). Butt’s Valley Road is first mentioned in the Sun in 1915.Not much information from the library website. I looked up Papers Past and it has Mr Scott offering the council to develop the road plus plant a line of trees. Sounds like Mr Scott owned …
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Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 