Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project
I love walking and history and this project covers both interests
Bath Street – Probably named after the cathedral city of Bath in Somerset, England.Not much information from library website. A short street and it has South City Mall on side and various businesses on the other side. On the Colombo St corner there is an old hotel called New City Hotel and it looks very …
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Albert Tce – Named after Albert Ernest Small (1863?- 1941). In electoral rolls of 1914, Small, a fruitgrower, is listed living at 69 Albert Terrace.A small amount of information on the library website. It goes from Centaurus Rd roundabout where there is a garage and a shop. Another mixture of new and old houses with …
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Hillsborough Tce – Formerly Victoria Road. Named after HM Queen Victoria (1819- 1901). Re-named Hillsborough Terrace. Named because it runs through the suburb of Hillsborough which, in turn, was named after the dairy farm of Edward Garland (1824-1893). Interesting information from the library website. Again quite a few rebuilt houses especially the end of the …
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April Place – Part of Willock Street April Place was named in 1997 at the request of residents.Nothing much on the library website and I didn’t manage to get a photo. Again mostly rebuilt modern and boring houses.
The Crescent – nothing on library website for this street. All the houses were brand new here and all but one of them looked very modern. There was one empty section still. The older looking house was lovely and I ended up talking to the owner. The house was rebuilt after the earthquakes but he …
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Charlene Place – First appears in street directories in 1983.Very little information on the library website. This street is divided from Leonard Place by a drain and I suspect that both streets were named by the developer after family members. There was one older house but the others looked new. One had an impressive garden …
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Leonard Place – Leonard Street first appears in street directories in 1950. Becomes Leonard Place in 1979.Very little information on the library website. A very small street in Hillsborough/ St Martins and the houses here all looked new so I am guessing that they are all rebuilds. There was one where I would loved to …
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Vernon Tce – Named after Helen Vernon Morten, née Downes, (1834?- 1906). Helen Morten was the wife of Richard May Morten (1823-1909), a sheepfarmer. In the 1880s Morten subdivided land in St Martins, land which he had previously farmed. A small amount of information from the library website.Mostly new houses here and they would have …
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Rapaki Road – Formerly Whites Road. Named after William White (1824- 1899). Re-named Rapaki Road. A very old roadway used by the early settlers as an alternative way to Christchurch from Lyttelton. Named Whites Road because White, a contractor and partowner of the Mount Pleasant sheep-run, worked on developing the road. Re-named Rapaki Road in …
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Northwood Boulevard – The first major road in the Northwood subdivision. Named on 2 February 2000.That is very brief information from the library website for a long street. This is a wide street with interesting artwork at the roundabouts. I had trouble seeing the houses along much of the street as there were high walls …
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Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project