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William Charlesworth known as Captain Charlesworth lived in a house on Ferry Road called Saxon Villa. Saxon obviously had some meaning for him as he was the captain of a barque called Royal Saxon and one of his sons was called William Saxon Charlesworth. Captain Charlesworth died in 1875 from an axe wound which he …

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Kotuku Crescent in Woolston and nothing on new or old library website. Kotuku is an Eastern Great Egret known as a white heron or Kotuku in New Zealand. Most houses were built in the 1990s with a few built a bit later. It looked like a lovely street with nice gardens but a noise control …

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Sweet Waters Place in Woolston – Named to continue the theme of street names in the Brookhaven subdivision. Developed by Enterprise Homes. Named in 1999. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. Most houses here were built in 2005 with a …

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Teal Close in Woolston and nothing on old or new library website. It would have been named after the bird to keep within the theme of the rest of the subdivision. Most houses here were built in the 1990s and 2000s and they are fairly large. The footpath is on only one side of the …

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Delta Way and nothing on either old or new library website. I checked the council website and they seem to have changed the way you can search so I couldn’t find any information there. I suspect that it gets it name from a river delta. The houses here were all built between 1990 and 2018 …

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Fantail Lane in Woolston – Named to continue a theme already established in the Brookhaven subdivision. In a subdivision by Enterprise Homes developed off Shearwater Drive. Named in 1999. A small amount of information from the library website and I was surprised that I hadn’t already done this street as I walked Shearwater Drive in …

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Olds Place in Woolston – Named after William Ernest Olds (1894-1968). Formed as a new private street at the site of the then new fire station in Charlesworth Street. The Metropolitan Fire Board asked for the name to recognise the long association of Councillor Olds with fire protection. Olds was a city councillor 1956-1968. Named …

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Queen Victoria Jubilee Memorial Home in Jubilee Street foundation stone was laid in February 1888. The words Queen Victoria Jubilee Memorial Home were on the building but the image I found is copyrighted so I can’t share it. It was mostly known as Christchurch Jubilee Memorial Home or as Jubilee Home. In 1970 it changed …

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Jubilee Street in Woolston – Named after the Queen’s Jubilee Memorial Home in Woolston. In 1887 the Charitable Aid Board purchased a section of six acres at Woolston, belonging to Mr Hawker, as a site for the Jubilee Memorial Home. The Home was for the “aged poor” and was built to commemorate Queen Victoria’s 50th …

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Bamford Street in Woolston – formerly Bamford’s Road. Named after Henry Augustus Bamford (1842?-1941). Henry Bamford, a lawyer and second president of the Woolston Public Library, was a resident of the street in 1887, the year it first appears in street directories. Bamford’s Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1872 in a report …

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