Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project
I love walking and history and this project covers both interests
Olson Way in Wigram – Named after Edward “Ted” George Olson (1906-1945). Air Commodore Olson was Wigram base commander January 1938-April 1938. Named to continue the theme in the Wigram Skies subdivision of naming streets after people involved in the air force in New Zealand. There are a number of streets named after former RNZAF …
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McKendry Road in Wigram – Named after John Henry McKendry (1893-1969). McKendry was a farmer from Lyndhurst, Canterbury. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 30 January 1918. In the Wigram Aerodrome subdivision by Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd where the street names are either of aircraft or taken from the list of the first …
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Keith Street in Wigram – Named after Ian Herbert Neill Keith (1898- 1978).Keith was a student from Napier. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 12 April 1918. In the Wigram Aerodrome subdivision by Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd where the street names are either of aircraft or taken from the list of the first …
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Validation Place in Middleton – Still nothing on library website either the old or new and I originally walked this street in March 2019 and I wasn’t doing the research on Papers Past back then. This is what I wrote then – Marylands Place in Middleton was not on the library website so I have …
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Denali Street in Halswell – Named after Denali National Park & Reserve in Alaska. In the Knights Stream Park subdivision where streets have been named with a common theme of World Heritage sites and national and major parks around the world. A small amount of information from the library website. Denali is a native word …
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Bill Harvey Drive in Halswell and nothing on the library website. The council just says the name of the street and that it is part of the subdivision at 340 Halswell Junction Road. Because the rest of the streets in this subdivision are named after young men who died in World War One the first …
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Bryden Place in Halswell and nothing on library website. The council website just gives the name of the street and that it was part of the subdivision at 340 Halswell Junction Road. I now know that the streets were named after young men who died in World War One and are on the Halswell War …
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Patrick McGough Way in Halswell and nothing on the library website. The council website just has the name of the street but I have now figured out that the streets in the subdivision at 340 Halswell Junction Road are named after young men who died in World War One. Their names are on the Halswell …
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John Holmes Road in Halswell and nothing on the library website. The council website doesn’t give a reason for the name. I searched Papers Past, Ancestry website and Findagrave and couldn’t find a John Holmes who lived in this area. John Holmes was a fairly common name which didn’t help. Edited as I have found …
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Thomas Ellis Lane in Halswell and nothing on library website. The council website only had the name and didn’t give a reason for the name. I searched Papers Past, Ancestry website and Findagrave but couldn’t find the person this street was named after. Edited as I now have realised that the streets in the subdivision …
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Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project