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The Brae in Mt Pleasant – Named after The Brae, the Scottish home of Robert Taylor Smith (1891?-1956). Smith was for many years a motorman on the Sumner tram route. First appears in street directories in 1940. Smith is a resident A small amount of information from the library website. A quick check on the …

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Rangatira Tce in Mt Pleasant – formerly part of Part of Major Hornbrook Road. First appears in street directories in 1947. A tiny amount of information from the library website. Not much information on Papers Past apart from ads for sections and houses. The earliest entry was in 1951 was about a house that had …

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Hilltop Lane in Mt Pleasant – Named because it runs to the top of Cannon Hill. Named by the developer, Cannon Estate Ltd. First appears in street directories in 1964. A small amount of information from the library website. The developer gave the same information in an article on Papers Past. There were a few …

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Janice Place in Mt Pleasant – Named after Janice Macleod, née Moore. Janice Macleod is the daughter of Samuel James Moore (1898- 1978) of B. Moore & Sons Ltd. He was a member of Cannon Estate Ltd, the company which subdivided Cannon Hill. First appears in street directories in 1970. A small amount of information …

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Hobday Lane in Mt Pleasant – nothing on library website for this street. I suspect that this tiny lane was named after a person but I couldn’t find anyone with that name who lived here. Papers Past mostly had ads for houses and sections. The houses here were built in the 1980s and I didn’t …

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Clementine Lane in Mt Pleasant – Named after Clementine Way, a street in the Wellington suburb of Chartwell. Cannon Estate Ltd., developers of the subdivision where this street was formed, also developed Chartwell in Wellington. Chartwell in Kent, England was the family home of Sir Winston Churchill (1864- 1975) and his wife, Clementine. Named in …

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Michael Ave in Mt Pleasant- Named after Michael John Wood Davis (1926-).Davis, a surveyor, was chairman of Cannon Estate Ltd., developers of the subdivision where this street is formed. First appears in street directories in 1966. A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of …

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Menlo Tce in Mt Pleasant – formerly part of St Andrews Hill Road. Named after Menlo in Galway, Ireland. Named by Walter Edward de Thier (1926- 2003). His mother lived in Menlo before emigrating to New Zealand. First appears in street directories in 1939. A small amount of information from the library website and I …

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As a change from writing about streets I thought that I would research a drain. An email from the council mentioned Baxter’s Drain so I had to find out about it. A small amount of information from Papers Past. Most entries were from the Drainage Board as early as 1885. An engineer report mentioned a …

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Tainui St in Somerfield – First mentioned in The Press in 1910 when T. W. Jacobs advertises 2 new 4-room houses for sale there. A tiny amount of information from library website. Note library says it is in Spreydon but property valuation website says it is in Somerfield. Real estate agents say Lower Cashmere. There …

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