Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project
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Victoria Park Road is another one that wasn’t on the library website. At the beginning of the road there are a few houses and then it goes through Victoria Park until it reaches Dyers Pass Rd. I managed to get a photo of a very ugly house. I had a good look through Gordon Ogilvie’s …
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Longhurst Tce is in the Cashmere Hills and there was nothing at all on the library website about this street. I tried googling and still couldn’t find anything. There is a new subdivision in Halswell called Longhurst which confuses the issue.There is a small reserve on Longhurst Tce and also lots of tiny streets that …
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Fairview Street – Named in 1927 at the suggestion of Thomas Sydney Dacre (1883-1943), a barrister and solicitor.Small amount of information from the library . I googled this man and as he lived in the Linwood area I am not sure why he ended up naming this street which is in the Spreydon area. I …
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Ramahana Road – First mentioned in The Press in 1924. First appears in street directories in 1925.Nothing much on the library website. The best I could find on google was that Ramahana was a possible Hindi word. Centaurus Park is below this street and on the high side of the street most of the houses …
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Errol Lane – First appears in street directories in 1977.Nothing much on the library website about this street. It looked like a private lane and there was only a few houses here. It runs off Aotea Terrace and there wasn’t a footpath. Best guess for the name is that there was a connection to the …
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Aotea Tce – First mentioned in The Press in 1925. First appears in street directories in 1928.Not much information from library website. Nothing to say how it got the name but as the name probably means white cloud it is possible that because this street is on Huntsbury Hill this is why it was given …
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Parklands Drive – Formed on the site of the Brightlings Brickworks, Huntsbury Hill. Developed by Bernie and Jack Ryan, of Ryan Brothers Ltd and named by their mother, Mary Catherine Ryan (1892-1978). First appears in street directories in 1968. Information supplied in 2008 by Jack Ryan, in a letter to Margaret Harper.Interesting information from the …
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Conifer Place – Named after a small wild conifer that had established itself on the cliff face. First appears in street directories in 1970. Information supplied in 2008 by Jack Ryan in a letter to Margaret Harper.Interesting information from the library website. I didn’t actually take much notice of the houses as it was the …
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View Tce in Huntsbury and this small street isn’t mentioned on the library website. My best guess for the naming of the street is the view of Christchurch from the street. Nice houses here but I only took one photo of a house and it was a very modern looking house. I normally wouldn’t like …
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Macartney Ave – Named after Thomas Macartney (1842- 1919). Macartney farmed at Tai Tapu. He was a member and later chairman of the Tai Tapu Road Board and also one of the founders of the Tai Tapu Dairy Company. His son, Robert, was also a prominent Halswell resident. NB The source confuses Thomas with his …
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Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project