Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project
I love walking and history and this project covers both interests
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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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Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project