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Factory Road Named because it was the road that led to the Belfast Freezing Works.
Belfast First mentioned in The Press in 1883. Tenders for shingling Factory Road were asked for that year.
"Road Boards", The Press, 17 July 1883, p 3
"Our local industries", The Press, 20 March 1874, p 2
Fair Place Named after Arthur Fair (1885-1951).
Hoon Hay Fair was a lawyer and judge. In a 145-acre housing subdivision planned by the housing division of the Ministry of Works. The land was purchased from the Church Property Trustees and the Loughnan estate.
In 1968 the street names sub-committee of the council felt that as Halswell was named after a prominent English Queen's Counsel it would be appropriate to record the names of judges in street names there. Many of them had been QCs or KCs before appointment to the Bench.
Alpers Place, Barrowclough Road, Callan Place, Dalglish Place, Haslam Crescent, Herdman Road, Leicester Crescent, McCarthy Street, Myers Place, Northcroft Road, O'Leary Street, Ostler Place, Salmond Road and Stanton Crescent.
“Judges’ names”, The Press, 17 September 1968, p 1
"New Halswell subdivision", The Press, 8 December 1960, p 19
"Hoon Hay subdivision provides 570 sections", The Press, 30 September 1964, p 1
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Fairfield Avenue
Named after Fairfield, a large house which stood where Fairfield Avenue was later developed.
Addington The source has a photograph of the house taken on 28 August 1863. H. J. Tancred, a member of the General Assembly, lived at Fairfield.
Fairfield Avenue was formed through Rural Section 17. This was 50 acres on the “south of Christchurch” purchased by John Tucker. Named in 1899 at the request of Messrs Harman and Stevens, land and commission agents. First appears in street directories in 1901.
A Canterbury album: collodion photography in Canterbury, 1857-1880, p 30
Province of Canterbury, New Zealand : list of sections purchased to April 30 1863, p 1 “Rural Sections chosen”, The Lyttelton Times, 1 March 1851, p 6 "Borough Councils", Star, 18 April 1899, p 1
Sydenham : the model borough of old Christchurch : an informal history, p 19
Fairford Street
Named after Fairford, a town in Gloucestershire, England. The town lies in the Cotswolds on the River Coln.
Bishopdale About 1963 the Waimairi County Council minuted a policy that all its streets be named after English place names. First appears in street directories in 1968.
“Street names”, The Papanui Herald, 17 April 1973, p 9
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Fairmile Place Russley First appears in street directories in 1964.
Fairview Street
Somerfield Named in 1927 at the suggestion of Thomas Sydney Dacre (1883-1943), a barrister and solicitor.
Dacre Street "Names of streets", The Press, 13 September 1927, p 11
"New streets, names selected", The Press, 27 September 1927, p 8
Obituary, Mr T. S. Dacre”, The Press, 12 May 1943, p 5 “
Fairway Drive Named because it is near the Shirley Golf Club.
Shirley The streets in the Fairway Park subdivision are named after American golf courses because it is near the Shirley Links, at the Christchurch Golf Club.
Named post-1997.
Baltimore Green, Birkdale Drive, Falconridge Place, Ironwood Lane, Lytham Green, Pepperwood Place, Ridgewood Place, Wild Dunes Place, Wildhawk Lane and Wilmington Place.
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Falcon Street Drake Street, Scott Street
Formerly Drake Street. Named after Sir Francis Drake (1540?-1596).
Re-named Scott Street and later Falcon Street. Named after Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912).
New Brighton Drake Street is first mentioned in The Press in 1913.
First appears in street directories in 1916.
Re-named Scott Street in 1920 by the New Brighton Borough Council. Re-named Falcon Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named.
Scott was an Antarctic explorer.
This name continues the theme of naming streets in New Brighton after British Admirals, explorers and fighting seafarers.
Beresford Street “Craddock, McCrostie Company”, The Press, 10 February 1913, p 8
“Borough Councils”, The Press, 9 November 1920, p 3 "Street names changed: City council approves final list", The Press, 24 August 1948, p 3
“New names for streets”, The Press, 2 June 1948, p 3
“New street names”, The Press, 24 July 1948, p 2
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Falconridge Place
Named after Falcon Ridge Golf Course in Stacy, Minnesota.
Shirley The streets in the Fairway Park subdivision are named after American golf courses because it is near the Shirley Links, at the Christchurch Golf Club. Named in 2002.
Baltimore Green, Birkdale Drive, Fairway Drive, Ironwood Lane, Pepperwood Place, Ridgewood Place, Wild Dunes Place, Wildhawk Lane and Wilmington Place.
Burwood/Pegasus Community Board agenda 17 June 2002
Falsgrave Street
Probably named after Falsgrave in North Yorkshire.
Waltham According to the minutes of the Sydenham Borough Council the formation and metalling of this street was completed by 1880.
First mentioned in The Press in 1880 in a report of a meeting of the Sydenham Borough Council. First appears in street directories in 1887.
Sydenham Borough Council minute book 1879-1880, p 208, held at Christchurch City Council archives. “Sydenham Borough Council”, The Press, 31 August 1880, p 3
Famille Close Yaldhurst Continues the street names theme used in the first stage of the Delamain subdivision. Named in 2008.
Delamain Riccarton/Wigram Community Board transport and roading committee 22 August 2008
Delamain cognac
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Fantail Lane Named to continue a theme already established in the Brookhaven subdivision.
Woolston In a subdivision by Enterprise Homes developed off Shearwater Drive.
Named in 1999.
Bluebell Lane, Molly Mawk Place and Sweet Waters Place.
Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board agenda 3 February 1999
Fantasia Gardens
Named after Fantasia, a variety of nectarine.
Northwood Bayliss Nurseries had existed on the site for many years and its land was subdivided to form the street.
Developed by the Freeman Partnership. The streets in the subdivision are named after varieties of fruit and personalities associated with the orchard. Named on 6 September 2000.
Bayliss Close, Oratia Grove, Panache Place and Richard Seddon Drive.
Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 6 September 2000
"Firmly rooted in history", The Press, 30 October 1999, Weekend, p 21
"100 plants for 100 years - wholesaler's offer", Christchurch Star, 17 December 1999, p C2
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Faraday Street
Named after Michael Faraday (1791-1867).
Sydenham Faraday was an English chemist and physicist, also writer and lecturer.
One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880.
[It is mis-spelt in the report of the committee as Farraday.]
Report of the street naming committee, Sydenham Borough Council minute book 1879-1880, p 217, held at Christchurch City Council archives. “Borough Council”, Star, 20 January 1880, p 3
“’Lost’ addresses”, The Christchurch Mail, 27 April 1999, p 8
Farm Lane Parklands First appears in street directories in 1993.
Farnborough Street
Named after Farnborough on the Hampshire, Surrey and Berkshire borders.
Aranui In an area where the streets have names associated with the county of Hampshire. There is a Christchurch city and a River Avon in Hampshire. Named in 1955.
“New streets in Christchurch”, The Press, 28 June 1955, p 6
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Farnham Place
Named after Farnham, a town in Surrey, England.
Ilam About 1963 the Waimairi County Council minuted a policy that all its streets be named after English place names.
First appears in street directories in 1968.
“Street names”, The Papanui Herald, 17 April 1973, p 9
Farquhars Road
Named after the Farquhar family.
Redwood George Farquhar, a farmer of Radcliffe Street (Road), was born at the Styx and died in 1918 at the age of 53 years. Part of this road was re-named Cunliffe Road.
Settling near the Styx River, pp 164-165
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: F27
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Farrelly Place Named after Rex and Helen Farrelly.
The Farrellys operated a small farm in Claridges Road for over thirty years (adjacent to Highsted Residential) and were still living in their house in 2015. Most of their land became part of the Highsted subdivision. In stages 1-4 of Highsted Residential. The street names were suggested by the developer. Named in 2014.
Broadstairs Avenue, Faversham Lane, Glenturret Drive, Grayshott Avenue and Tullet Park Drive.
Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 17 December 2014
Highsted Residential
Farrier Lane Yaldhurst In the Noble Village subdivision developed on the former Applefields land in Yaldhurst Road. The property has historical connections with the breeding and racing of standard breed horses. Named in 2011.
Noble Village Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 15 August 2011
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board minutes 23 August 2011
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Fatima Place Named at the Ryan family’s request after Fatima, in Spain.
Redwood The street was formed on land formerly owned by Frank Ryan (1886-1944). His wife Katie and daughter Hannah were devout Catholics and both had a liking for Fatima which is a place in Spain where children saw an apparition of the Virgin Mary early in the 20th century. Katie Ryan had the shops on the corner of Daniels Road and Main North Road built. The Ryans also ran a mini-supermarket in the area in the early 1960s. First appears in street directories in 1960.
Hannah Place Information supplied in 2006 by Mrs Eileen Thomson in an interview with Margaret Harper.
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Faversham Lane
Named after a street and locality in Highsted, England.
In stages 1-4 of the Highsted subdivision. The street names were suggested by the developer. Named in 2014.
NB Highsted Road, and consequently Highsted Residential, are named after John Kirby Highsted (1817-1871), not the town in Kent, England.
Broadstairs Avenue, Farrelly Place, Glenturret Drive, Grayshott Avenue and Tullet Park Drive. Also Highsted Road.
Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 17 December 2014
Highsted Residential
Feast Place Named after Herbert Stanley Feast (1898?-1961).
Addington Feast was the town clerk of Christchurch 1940-1961. First appears in street directories in 1962.
Information supplied in 2007 by Richard Greenaway.
“Obituary” The Press, 12 September 1961, p 14 "Obituary", The Papanui Herald, 6 October 1961, p 4
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Federer Lane Named after Roger Federer (1981-)
Burnside Federer is a Swiss tennis player. Name chosen by Bryndwr Properties Ltd. The subdivision created nine Elderly Persons Housing Units served by a common access off 258-262 Grahams Road.
Named in 2008.
Fendalton/Waimairi Community Board works, traffic and environment committee agenda, 25 February 2008
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Feilding Street
Spohr Street Formerly Spohr Street. Named after Louis Spohr (1784-1859). Re-named Feilding Street.
Addington Spohr was a German virtuoso violinist and composer. Spohr Street is first mentioned in The Press in 1881 in a report of a meeting of the Sydenham Borough Council. Mr Ruddenklau had constructed a street in Rural Section 72 and was applying for it to be taken over by the council.
Spohr Street first appears in street directories in 1892.
Re-named Feilding Street in 1917 because of a dislike of German names during World War I (1914-1918).
“Sydenham Borough Council”, The Press, 16 August 1881, p 3
“City Council”, The Press, 30 January 1917, p 10 “Would road by any other name stay as street”, Pegasus Post, 12 July 1978, p 16
“German street names”, The Press, 26 September 1917, p 7 “Street names”, The Press, 13 September 1924, p 13
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Felicitas Grove
Sister Felicitas "Ellen" Hanrahan (1905-1999).
Halswell Sister Hanrahan was a Melbourne sister who worked at Mount Magdala in the 1930s. She worked in New Zealand until the 1970s before returning to Australia. The street names in the Aidanfield subdivision are those of former Sisters of the Good Shepherd Order and former residents of the Good Shepherd Sisters’ Home at Halswell.
Named in 2004.
Aidanfield Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 3 March 2004
Mount Magdala : 80 years of care…with a short history of the institution
Pitch your tents on distant shores: a history of the Sisters of Good Shepherd in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Tahiti
Felstead Place Named after Felstead, a village in Essex, England.
Avonhead About 1963 the Waimairi County Council minuted a policy that all its streets be named after English place names.
First appears in street directories in 1968.
“Street names”, The Papanui Herald, 17 April 1973, p 9
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Felthams Road
Named after Thomas Feltham (1824?-1898).
Akaroa Feltham and his wife opened the first school in Akaroa in 1854. He was also a renowned nurseryman and seedsman. Felthams Road was developed where he had lived 1865-1898.
Named by the developer who selected the name as "it is a simple and straightforward name that we do not believe will be confused with any other in Akaroa".
Named in 2010.
Akaroa/Wairewa Community Board agenda 7 July 2010
"Local and General", Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 20 May 1898, p 2
Fenchurch Street
Named after Fenchurch Street, a railway station in the City of London.
Redwood, Northcote
One of a group of streets named after London railway stations. The Main North Railway passes right by the area.
Named in 1955.
Aldgate Street, Camden Street, Ealing Street, Grosvenor Street, Lambeth Crescent, Paddington Street and Uxbridge Street.
“New streets in Christchurch”, The Press, 28 June 1955, p 6
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Fendall Lane Named after Walpole Cheshire Fendall (1830–1913).
Fendalton Named to pay tribute to Fendall whose land, Rural Section 18, 50 acres in Fendall Town, was subdivided to create what is known today as Fendalton. Named in 2015.
Fendalton "Rural Sections chosen", The Lyttelton Times, 1 March 1851, p 6 Province of Canterbury, New Zealand : list of sections purchased to April 30 1863, p 1
Fendalton/Waimairi Community Board agenda 30 November 2015
Fendalton/Waimairi Community Board minutes 30 November 2015
"New road name", Western News, 7 December 2015, p 5
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: F67 "Obituary", The Press, 7 April 1913, p 9
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Fendalton Road
Fendall Town Road. Princess/Princes Street was incorporated into Fendalton Road.
Named after Walpole Cheshire Fendall (1830–1913).
Fendalton Fendall Town Road was cut through Rural Section 18, 50 acres in Fendall Town purchased by W. C. Fendall. Fendall Town Road is first mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1857.
Fendalton Road first appears in street directories in 1894.
At that time Fendalton Road extended into what became Burnside Road (later Memorial Avenue).
A section of Fendalton Road near Holmwood Road was formerly named Princess or Princes Street.
Fendalton "Rural Sections chosen", The Lyttelton Times, 1 March 1851, p 6 Province of Canterbury, New Zealand : list of sections purchased to April 30 1863, p 1
“Advertisements”, The Lyttelton Times, 14 November 1857, p 6
“The Hagley Park Roads”, Star, 16 June 1879, p 3
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: F67 "Obituary", The Press, 7 April 1913, p 9
First mentioned in The Press in 1880 when “53 beautiful villa sites adjoining Mr Wilkin’s residence at Holmwood” are advertised for sale in The Press.
“Advertisements”, The Press, 7 October 1880, p 3
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Fenners Lane Fenner's Lane Named after William Albert Smith Fenner (1864?-1949).
New Brighton Fenner was living on Seaview Road in 1897. He worked for Mason Struthers & Co Ltd for 27 years. The New Brighton Borough Council took over Fenner's Lane in 1914.
First appears in street directories in 1925.
"Fires", Star, 4 January 1897, p 4 "Borough Councils", Sun, 7 July 1914, p 2 "New Brighton notes", Star, 11 July 1914, p 11
“Personal items”, The Press, 6 March 1906, p 7
Ferdinand Terrace
Named after Henry-Ferdinand Delamain (d. 1899).
Yaldhurst Delamain took over the cognac producing business in 1865.
In the Delamain subdivision. Named in 2007.
Delamain Riccarton/Wigram Community Board Transport and Roading Committee agenda 29 June 2007
Delamain cognac
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Fergusson Avenue
Named after General Sir Charles Fergusson (1865-1951).
Mairehau Fergusson was the Governor-General of New Zealand 1924-1930.
Described as a "new" street in The Press in 1927 when land is advertised for sale there. First appears in street directories in 1930. [His surname is spelt correctly in 1930 but over the years one “s” was dropped. This was corrected in 1959.]
"Advertisements", The Press, 26 November 1927, p 24 “Streets named and changed”, The Press, 1 September 1959, p 16
Governor-General of Aotearoa, New Zealand
Fern Drive Halswell First appears in street directories in 1972.
Ferndown Lane
Named after Ferndown in Hampshire, England.
Bromley Ferndown is a small village near Linwood in Hampshire.
Developed by Hawk Investments at 394 Linwood Avenue. Named in 2004.
Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board agenda 1 September 2004
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Ferner Street Smith’s Road/Smith Street and Queensbury Street/Queen Street. Also Madge Street.
Dallington Smith's Road/Smith Street ran from McBratneys Road to Birchfield Street from 1920. No residents are ever listed. By 1930 it had been re-named Queen Street. It became part of Queensbury Street from 1939. It appears on a 1954 map as Madge Street but this never appears in street directories. Madge King (1894-1967) owned a small shop in Birchfield Avenue. Re-named Ferner Street in 1955.
Queensbury Street Map of Christchurch, [1930] Map of Christchurch and environs, 1954. “New streets in Christchurch”, The Press, 28 June 1955, p 6 Early Dallington, p 10
Ferniehurst Street
Named after Ferniehurst which is 24 km from Cheviot.
Somerfield In a subdivision where the streets are named after rivers or properties in North Canterbury. Named in 1966.
First appears in street directories in 1970.
Greta Place, Kaiwara Street, Molesworth Place, Palmside Street and Tekoa Place.
Information on date of naming in a letter sent to the City Librarian from the Town Clerk dated 13 December 1966.
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Fernwood Courts
Named after Fernwood, the retirement home for the blind that once stood on the rear of the site.
Developed at 86 and 90 Bristol Street. Name suggested by the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind because of its connection with the land being subdivided.
Named in 1999.
Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 3 February 1999
Ferry Road Sumner Road, Ashbourne Road and Regent Street.
Formerly Sumner Road. Named after John Bird Sumner (1780-1862).
Re-named Ferry Road. Named because it was the road leading to the ferry at the Heathcote River.
Central city, Waltham, Woolston
From St Asaph Street to the East Belt (later Fitzgerald Avenue) was formerly Sumner Road.
Sumner was an Archbishop of Canterbury and a President of the Canterbury Association. Formation of the road began in 1850 and was improved at time of establishment of Provincial Government. A ferry service was established connecting the Ferry Road with the Heathcote Valley Road leading to the foot of the Bridle Path.
Reproduction of Edward Jollie's 1850 map of the proposed city. Department of Lands and Survey, Christchurch. Historical Maps Reminiscences of a surveyor, runholder and politician in Canterbury and Otago, 1841-1865, pp 28-29
Early days of Canterbury, p 27
The evolution of a city, p 13
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: J169 & T144 “Obituary”, The Press, 9 August 1894, p 5e “Obituary”, Star, 9 August 1894, p 1 View the biography of Joseph Thomas in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
The Canterbury Association: a
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"Heathcote Ferry Road" is first mentioned in the Lyttelton Times in 1851.
In 1884 “the Ferry Road, from Hargood’s Road to the swing bridge” was re-named Regent Street. From Ensors Road-Aldwins Road to Radley Street was re-named Ashbourne Street in 1893 and became part of Ferry Road in 1922. From Radley Street to the Heathcote bridge remained as Regent Street until 1922 when it was re-named Ferry Road.
[The ferry went out of business when the bridge was built over the Heathcote River.]
Old Christchurch in picture and story, pp 50-51
"Advertisements", Lyttelton Times, 8 March 1851, p 1 "Woolston Town Board", Star, 14 January 1884, p 4
“Woolston Borough Council”, The Press, 16 September 1893, p 10
"Early provincial days: roadways and waterways", Star, 13 February 1901, p 4
"General news", The Press, 15 July 1919, p 6
“Street names”, The Press, 2 September 1930, p 12
“Changes in old place names”, The
study of its members’ connections, p 93
“Street names”, The Press, 13 September 1924, p 13
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Ferrymead Park Drive
Ferrymead Named in 1999. Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board agenda 4 August 1999
Field Terrace Spring Street and Field Street.
Upper Riccarton
Field Street and Spring Street both appear first in street directories in 1921. The two streets were amalgamated and re-named Field Terrace in June 1948.
"Street names changed", The Press, 25 June 1948, p 9
"Street names", The Press, 25 June 1948, p 6
Fieldstone Lane
Spreydon Developed at 398-404 Barrington Street.
Named in 2005.
Spreydon/Heathcote Community Board agenda 5 July 2005
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Fifield Terrace
River Road Formerly River road. Named because it runs along the northern side of the River Heathcote between Wilson's Bridge and the Railway.
Re-named Fifield Terrace. Named after Fifield, the home of William Bayley Bray (1812?-1885).
Opawa, Woolston
Bray was consulting engineer to the Canterbury Provincial Council. An advertisement for a general servant for “a family up country” appears in the Star in 1880. Mrs Bray, Fifield, Opawa, “near railway station” is the advertiser. Re-named in 1917.
First appears in street directories in 1924.
Avonhead “Advertisements”, Star, 10 July 1880, p 2
“Alterations to street names”, The Press, 26 June 1917, p 11 The Port Hills of Christchurch, p 170
“Obituary”, The Lyttelton Times, 1 June 1885, p 5
"Obituary", The Press, 30 May 1885, p 3 “Death”, Star, 28 May 1885, p 2 “In Memoriam”, Star, 30 May 1885, p 3
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: B694
“Street names”, The Press, 13 September 1924, p 13
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Findlay Avenue
Named after the original Findlay's farm which adjoined the Halswell Quarry.
Halswell George Findlay (1830-1888) was a stonemason and foreman of works for the City Council. In the Quarry View subdivision. The developers submitted street names having a connection with the Halswell Quarry, its location and its product.
Named in 2012.
Quarry View Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 28 February 2012
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: F115
Finlay Place Named after William Duncan Finlay (1871?-1955).
Woolston Finlay is listed in early 1940s street directories living at 108 Mackenzie Avenue where this street was later formed. First appears in street directories in 1950.
Finnsarby Place
Named after the Finn class yacht of Brett de Thier (1945-).
Sumner The class was designed by the Swedish sailor Erik Rickard Sarby (1912-1977). First appears in street directories in 1977.
Sumner to Ferrymead: a Christchurch history, p 207
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Finsbury Street
Probably named after Finsbury Park in London.
Islington Named in 1955. “New streets in Christchurch”, The Press, 28 June 1955, p 6
Fintan Mews Named after Sister Mary of St Fintan Tuohey.
Aidanfield In stages 8 and 9 of the Aidanfield subdivision where the street names are those of former Sisters of the Good Shepherd Order and former residents of the Good Shepherd Sisters Home at Halswell.
Named in 2011.
Aidanfield Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 15 August 2011
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board minutes 23 August 2011
Mount Magdala : 80 years of care…with a short history of the institution Pitch your tents on distant shores: a history of the Sisters of Good Shepherd in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Tahiti
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Fisher Avenue Fisher Street Named after James Temple Fisher (1828-1905) and his brother, Stephen Fisher (1818-1897).
Beckenham The brothers owned a large area of land in the Beckenham area. Stephen Fisher’s home stood where St. Peter’s Church is in Fisher Avenue now. Fisher Street first appears in street directories in 1903 as a blind street off Colombo Street. Four residents only are listed.
Dedicated as a public street in 1907.
A petition by 50 residents of Fisher street asking for the street to be re-named Fisher Avenue, was agreed to by the Christchurch City Council on 26 July 1943. Postal authorities frequently confused Fisher street, Beckenham, with Fisher street (later Mountbatten Street), New Brighton.
Beckenham Road and Sandwich Road. Also Beckenham.
Province of Canterbury, New Zealand: list of sections purchased to April 30, 1863, p 2
“Rural Sections chosen”, The Lyttelton Times, 15 March 1851, p 7
Beckenham, a suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, pp 8-13
“City Council”, Star, 10 September 1907, p 1 “General news”, The Press, 27 July 1943, p 4
Along the hills: a history of the Heathcote Road Board and the Heathcote County Council 1864-1989, p 13
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: F135 & F139 “Obituary”, The Press, 2 July 1897, p 5
“Obituary”, The Press, 5 January 1905, p 10 “Death of an old settler”, Feilding Star, 4 January 1905, p 2
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Fitzgerald Avenue
East Town Belt and East Belt.
North Avon Road from Fitzgerald Avenue northward.
Formerly East Town Belt and East Belt. Named by the Canterbury Association surveyors who laid out the boundaries of the original city within roadways called "belts" or "town belts". Re-named Fitzgerald Avenue. Named after James Edward Fitzgerald (1818-1896).
Central city, Richmond
East Town Belt first appears in street directories in 1878. Re-named Fitzgerald Avenue on 11 January 1904 after the merging of several boroughs into the City of Christchurch in 1903.
Fitzgerald was a journalist, provincial superintendent, politician and public servant. North Avon Road from Fitzgerald Avenue northward was re-named Fitzgerald Avenue on 24 May 1926.
Bealey Avenue and Moorhouse Avenue.
Plan of the city of Christchurch (Selwyn county) Canterbury, New Zealand, 1883. Map
“Re-naming the Belts”, The Press, 15 December 1903, p 4 “Re-naming the Belts”, The Press, 15 December 1903, p 6
“Re-naming the Belts”, The Press, 12 January 1904, p 6 The evolution of a city, p 14 “Advertisements”, The Press, 28 May 1926, p 17
View the biography of James Edward FitzGerald in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: F154
“Obituary”, Star, 7 August 1896, p 5
“Street names”, The Press, 22 February 1926, p 10
“Street names”, The Press, 26 May 1926, p 11 “Christchurch can look better”, The Press, 30 June 2005, p. A9
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Fitzpatricks Lane
Named after Ricardo Patrick “Ric” Fitzpatrick (1924-2010) and Rita Fitzpatrick (d. 2008).
Linwood Ric and Rita Fitzpatrick were life members of the Rangers AFC. Rita organised and managed women’s football for both juniors and seniors and Ric was involved in the management of junior teams. Both served as delegates of Rangers AFC on the Canterbury Football Association committees and organised social activities for the club.
Named in 2010.
Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board extraordinary agenda 22 September 2010 Report of the Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board to the Council Meeting of 2 December 2010
Fitzroy Place Bishopdale First appears in street directories in 1962.
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Flavell Street Lee Street Formerly Lee Street. Named after Alfred Lee Smith (1838-1917).
Re-named Flavell Street. Named after Charles Flavell (1871?-1955).
Heathcote Valley
In 1873 Smith developed three streets in the Heathcote Valley, naming them Lee Street, Smith Street and Vogel Street. He operated a malthouse on the site. Lee Street was re-named Flavell Street in 1933 by the Public Utilities Committee of the Heathcote County Council at the request of the Post and Telegraph Department.
Flavell was an original member of the Heathcote County Council which was formed in 1911.
Marsden Street and Rollin Street.
Malting in Heathcote Valley 1871-1981, pp 11-13
Sumner to Ferrymead: a Christchurch history, p 207
“Street names”, The Press, 15 October 1932, p 14 "Street names", The Press, 31 January 1933, p 3
Along the hills: a history of the Heathcote Road Board and the Heathcote County Council 1864-1989, p 129
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: S466
“Obituary”, The Press, 9 November 1955, p 14
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Flaxon Place Named because of an association of the name with swamps or wetlands.
Burwood A subdivision developed off Kingsbridge Drive by Enterprise Homes on the opposite side of Travis Road to the Travis Wetland Nature Heritage Park. Flaxon Fells was the first name suggested. Named in 2006.
Burwood/Pegasus Community Board agenda 16 August 2006
Flay Crescent Named after Professor Albert Hugh Flay (1905-1973).
Burnside Flay was head of farm management at Lincoln College. He owned 50 acres of land on the eastern side of Grahams Road opposite the Waimairi Cemetery, where Flay Crescent was formed. First appears in street directories in 1960.
Flay Park Fendall’s legacy: a history of Fendalton and north-west Christchurch, p 175
“Long association with Lincoln College”, The Press, 27 March 1973, p 4
"Making space", The Press, 24 February 1992, p 9
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Fleete Street Queensbury Street. The section south of New Brighton Road was formerly Queen Street and was incorporated into Fleete Street.
Named after Percy Lonsdale Fleete (1884-1968).
Burwood, Dallington
Queensberry Street first appears in street directories in 1913.
Re-named Queensbury Street in 1934.
The section south of New Brighton Road was re-named Queen Street by 1930 and later, in 1955, Fleete Street.
Fleete, a market gardener, is listed as a resident of the street in 1954, living at 69 Queensbury Street.
Queensbury Street Map of Christchurch, [1930] “New streets in Christchurch”, The Press, 28 June 1955, p 6
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Fleming Street
Probably named after Charles Elphinstone Fleming (1774-1840).
North New Brighton
Fleming was an aristocrat, a member of parliament and an admiral during the Napoleonic Wars. This name probably continues the naval theme of street names in the North New Brighton area. First mentioned in the Star in 1915 when a section is advertised for sale there.
First appears in street directories in 1919.
“Advertisements”, Star, 10 April 1915, p 7
Flemington Avenue
Named after the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne.
North New Brighton
Names of three famous racecourses - Ascot, Flemington and Randwick - were chosen for streets on the north-east side of the New Brighton Trotting Club's course at North Beach. First mentioned in The Press in 1913. First appears in street directories in 1919.
Ascot Avenue and Randwick Street.
"Advertisements", The Press, 7 October 1913, p 12 “Naming of streets in new subdivisions”, The Press, 1 November 1958, p 10
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Flesher Avenue
Named after the Flesher family.
Richmond William Flesher (1837-1889) bought 25 acres there for £500 in 1871. His son, James Arthur Flesher (1865-1930), a lawyer, was mayor of New Brighton 1912-1913 and 1915-1917 and mayor of Christchurch 1923-1925. The road was formed out of land that had previously belonged to Avebury House and acknowledged the contribution of the Flesher family to the Richmond community.
First appears in street directories in 1943.
Richmond, Christchurch: a regional history, p 18
A house with a story : Avebury House, p (7)
“William Flesher”, Star, 27 February 1889, p 4
“Mr J. A. Flesher”, The Press, 19 August 1930, p 10 “Obituary”, The Press, 19 August 1930, p 11
Fletcher Place Named after Henry Fletcher (1844-1942).
Upper Riccarton
Fletcher was the first market gardener in Riccarton. In 1879 he is listed in street directories as living at Okeover in Ilam and by 1902 he is at Stemmers Road (later Peer Street), Peerswick, Upper Riccarton. He had eleven children, most of
Information supplied in 2008 by Barbara White, a descendant of Fletcher, in an interview with Margaret Harper.
“Still gardening”, The Christchurch Times, 19 January 1934, p 3
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whom settled in the Upper Riccarton area. He left his land to his sons and his house to his daughters. When the Christchurch City Council wanted to buy the property to build pensioner cottages, the family sold it on condition that the street to be formed was named Fletcher Place. First appears in street directories in 1968.
Fleur Lane Named after Fleur Susan Watson, née Stewart, (1974?-1999).
Burwood Fleur Watson was the daughter of Paul Stewart and Susan and Owen Roberts. The street was developed by the Roberts Partnership at 70 Vivian Street. The family had a long association with this and surrounding property.
Named in 2002.
Burwood/Pegasus Community Board agenda 13 May 2002
"Deaths", The Press, 21 September 1999, p 33
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Flimwell Lane Named after Flimwell in East Sussex.
Lyttelton The Rev. Benjamin Woolley Dudley (1805-1892) served as a curate in the parish of Ticehurst 1851-1859. This parish included a church in Flimwell. Made a public street from 1 August 1920 by the Lyttelton Borough Council.
First appears in street directories in 1981.
Dudley Road “Advertisements”, The Press, 16 June 1920, p 1
The Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican Clergy in the Pacific
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: D466
Flinders Road Named after John Flinders Scott (1876-1941).
Heathcote Valley
Scott, a pastoral farmer of Opawa, was a member of the Heathcote County Council for twelve years. First appears in street directories in 1955.
Hawford Street. Also Bowenvale.
Sumner to Ferrymead: a Christchurch history, p 207 Early fruitgrowing in Canterbury New Zealand, pp 92-94 The Port Hills of Christchurch, pp 117-118
“Obituary”, The Press, 30 July 1941, p 8
From glasshouses to the Port Hills: the story of John Flinders Scott
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Flockton Street
Named after Charles Flockton (d. 1885).
Mairehau Flockton was a coach builder, general smith and engineer-in-charge of the works at Canterbury Railways. Flockton Street is first mentioned in the Star in 1880. In 1890 a deputation of residents asked the council to "form the street".
First appears in street directories in 1896.
"Drainage Board", Star, 3 August 1880, p 3
"St Albans Borough Council", Star, 17 October 1890, p 1
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: F200
Flora Lane The Groynes Park subdivision was developed by Eminence Investments Ltd, a group of Malaysian nationals from Sarawak state, in conjunction with Groynes Development (2012) Ltd. Named in 2015.
Groynes Park Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 14 October 2015 Shirley/Papanui Community Board minutes 14 October 2015
Groynes Park
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Florance Place
Named after Augustus Florance (1847-1897).
Parklands Florance was born at Portland, Dorset, and emigrated to Canterbury in 1863. He was a compositor for The Lyttelton Times and pioneer owner of land at North New Brighton near the seashore. As a private experiment, he imported seashore lupins and marram grass from Australia and planted them. They are sand-binding plants.
First appears in street directories in 1981.
Rich man, poor man, environmentalist, thief
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: F204
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Flower Street Named after Arthur Edward Flower (1874-1952).
Bryndwr, Papanui.
Flower was a pupil of Christ’s College and later a master at for 40 years. Flowers House, a boarding-house at the school, is named after him. This was demolished in 2004.
One of the Papanui streets developed on land belonging to Christ’s College. First appears in street directories in 1962.
Blanch Street, Bourne Crescent, Condell Avenue, Harris Crescent, Moreland Avenue, Richards Avenue and Tothill Place.
Papanui Heritage Group
“Death of Mr A. E. Flower”, The Press, 19 June 1952, p 8
Flowers Track
Named after Arthur Edward Flower (1874-1952).
Goes from Scarborough Road to Nicholson Park.
Flower was a pupil of Christ’s College and later a master at for 40 years. He was a resident of Scarborough in the 1930s.
The Port Hills of Christchurch, p 29
“Death of Mr A. E. Flower”, The Press, 19 June 1952, p 8
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Foochow Avenue
Named after the foochow dialect spoken in Sarawak.
The Groynes Park subdivision was developed by Eminence Investments Ltd, a group of Malaysian nationals from Sarawak state, in conjunction with Groynes Development (2012) Ltd.
Named in 2015.
Groynes Park Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 14 October 2015 Shirley/Papanui Community Board minutes 14 October 2015
Groynes Park
Forbes Street Probably named after Edward Forbes (1815-1854).
Sydenham Forbes was a British naturalist.
First mentioned in The Press in 1881 when Anderson’s paddock is subdivided into 44 sections ”situated in the best part of Sydenham” and sold by auction. First appears in street directories in 1906.
“Advertisements”, The Press, 15 October 1881, p 4 “’Lost’ addresses”, The Christchurch Mail, 27 April 1999, p 8
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Ford Road Named because it was the site of a ford across the Heathcote River used by early settlers travelling from Lyttelton to Christchurch.
Opawa First appears in street directories in 1906.
"Bligh's Road School", Sun, 7 May 1920, p 11
Foresters Crescent
Parklands The Community Board commended the developer, Smith Developments Ltd in its use of a forestry theme when naming streets in the Forest Park Estate subdivision. Named in 2004.
Corsican Grove, Larchwood Lane, Stoneleigh Green.
Burwood/Pegasus Community Board Agenda 30 August 2004
Forfar Street Hamilton Street
Named after Forfar in Scotland.
St Albans Hamilton Street first appears in street directories in 1902.
Re-named Forfar Street on 7 March 1904. Among a number of streets re-named in 1904 and given the names of place-names in the United Kingdom.
“Re-naming streets”, The Press, 8 March 1904, p 5 Christchurch City Council minute book, June 1903-October 1904 held at Christchurch City Council archives.
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Forgan Lane Named after James Forgan (1822-1886).
Halswell In 1856 Forgan entered into partnership with James Feather (1824-1898) and opened the Halswell Quarry. The street names in the Milns Estate subdivision all have an historical connection with the Halswell area. Named in 1999.
Halswell. Also Edmund Storr Road, John Olliver Terrace, Lady Nugent Lane, Marsack Crescent, and William Brittan Avenue. Also Milns Estate
Riccarton//Wigram Community Board agenda November 1999
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: F245
Forsyth Street Spreydon First appears in street directories in 1962.
Forth Street Probably named after the River Forth in Scotland.
Richmond First mentioned in street directories in 1902 with a see ref. to Stanmore Road.
First mentioned in the Star in 1904 in an advertisement.
Not listed in street directories with residents until 1905.
"Advertisements", Star, 9 July 1904, p 6
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Foster Street Part of Princess Street.
Named after John Foster (1817-1903).
Addington Foster was a road contractor of Riccarton and lived on the section of Princess Street which became Foster Street. First mentioned in the Star in 1897. First appears in street directories in 1904.
“Sudden death”, Star, 7 December 1897, p 3
A history of early Riccarton (no pagination) Riccarton, the founding borough: a short history, Canterbury’s founding settlement, p 117
Early Christchurch and Canterbury : newspaper clippings ca 1923-1950, Vol 2, p 177
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: F267
“Death”, The Press, 30 April 1903, p 1
Foster Terrace
Named after William Thomas Foster (1867-1945).
Lyttelton Foster was the mayor of the Lyttelton Borough Council 1929-1931. He was a member of the council for nearly 40 years and deputy-mayor at the time of his death. First appears in street directories in 1958.
The story of Lyttelton, 1849-1949, p 146
“Obituary”, The Press, 1 November 1945, p 3
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Foula Place Named after Foula, one of the Shetland Islands of Scotland.
Woolston Continues the theme of using names from the Shetland Islands for cul-de-sacs developed off Kennaway Road.
Named in 2014.
Vaila Place Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board agenda 2 April 2014
Founders Lane
Yaldhurst In the Noble Village subdivision developed on the former Applefields land in Yaldhurst Road. The property has historical connections with the breeding and racing of standard breed horses. Named in 2011.
Apple Orchard Lane, Gallop Lane, George Noble Road, Sir John McKenzie Avenue, Stirrup Lane, Stud Road. Also Noble Village.
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 15 August 2011
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board minutes 23 August 2011
Fountainhead Lane
Named after the book The Fountainhead.
Hillmorton Named by architect Ray Hawthorne. The book is the fictional story of architect Howard Roark and was written by Ayn Rand in 1943. First appears in street directories in 1993.
Information supplied in 2004 by Linda Mauger in an interview with Margaret Harper.
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Fountains Road
Named after James Alfred Fountain or Fountaine (1852?-1892).
Halswell Road Fountain farmed on "the Harewood Road". He moved to Oaklands, then described as being in Prebbleton, later in Halswell. An infant daughter, Lucy Ethel, died there in 1880.
First mentioned in The Press in 1877.
"Road Boards", The Press, 13 August 1877, p 3
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: F282a
Four Elms Place
Parklands The suburb was established near the Bottle Lake forest and the street names have a "tree" theme. First appears in street directories in 1976.
Ashwood Street, Heathglen Avenue, Pinaster Place, Radiata Avenue, Sequoia Place and Sophora Place.
Four Peaks Drive
Named after Four Peaks Station, near Fairlie in South Canterbury.
Continues the theme of high country farms used for street names in the Broken Run subdivision. Named in 2015.
Broken Run Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 16 December 2014 Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 3 February 2015
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Fovant Street Railway Street, Park Road and Currie Street.
Formerly Currie Street. Named after the Currie family (Colin, Margaret and Archibald Currie). Re-named Fovant Street. Named after Fovant, a village in south-west Wiltshire, England.
Russley Railway Street and Park Road both first appear in street directories in 1910: Railway Street as a blind road off Yaldhurst Road, Park Road running off Russley Road.
Railway Street was re-named Currie Street by the Waimairi County Council on 8 February 1933.
The Currie family was living at 137 Russley Road in 1934.
Re-named Fovant Street in June 1948 when 24 streets in the Waimairi County were re-named.
Waimairi County Council, minute book, 1931-1936, p 308, held at Christchurch City Council archives. "Street names changed", The Press, 25 June 1948, p 9
"Street names", The Press, 25 June 1948, p 6
Fox Lane Cashmere First appears in street directories in 1991.
Francella Street
Francella Place
Bromley First appears in street directories in 1995.
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Francis Avenue
Named after Francis Harrison (1815?-1887).
Mairehau Harrison farmed on land off Warrington Street near where Francis Avenue is located. This farm probably disappeared in 1910 when Joshua Harrison auctioned off 48 residential sections. In 1906 he was living on the corner of Cranford Street and Shirley Road. First mentioned in The Press in 1910 where it is described as a street “to be formed” in an advertisement for the auction of the Harrison estate subdivision. First appears in street directories in 1914.
Harrison Street and Carrick Street. Also Harrison’s Town.
St Albans: from swamp to suburbs: an informal history, p 17 “Advertisements”, The Press, 7 November 1887, p 1
“Advertisements”, The Press, 14 April 1910, p 12
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: H232 Charlotte Howard & Charlotte Thompson: a colonial saga, p 22
Francis James Lane
Named after Francis James O’Leary (1921-1998).
Moncks Spur O'Leary, an engineer, was the grandfather of one of the developers.
Developed in 2005 by N. & J. Blakely.
Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board agenda 13 July 2005
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Francis Mill Grove
Named after Colin Francis (d. 2012).
Westmorland Francis was project and sales manager for the Westmorland subdivision.
Named in 2013.
Westmorland Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 17 September 2013 Minutes of the Riccarton/Wigram Community Board minutes 17 September 2013
Information supplied by Lindsay Dove in an interview with Margaret Harper in 2015.
Frank Street Named after Francis Edward Horner (1873-1943).
Papanui Francis Horner was a son of William and Mary Horner. At the time of his marriage in 1895 he was a storeman of Papanui.
First mentioned in The Press in 1889.
First appears in street directories in 1892.
Horner Street, Loftus Street, Mary Street, Proctor Street and Wyndham Street.
“Advertisements”, The Press, 15 April 1889, p 1
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: H765
Frank Coxon Named after Frank Belfast Coxon came to New Zealand Shirley/Papanui “Obituary”, The
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Road Coxon (1859-1932).
in 1881 as the first engineer to the New Zealand Refrigerating Company. He was commissioned as an engineer to design the Belfast Freezing Works and was also involved in the purchase of the land for it. He moved to Sydney in 1890.
In the Belfast Business Park. Named in 2015.
Community Board agenda 15 February 2015
Press, 9 September 1932, p 17
Frankleigh Street
Named after the baronetcy of Frankley.
[The name of the street is wrongly spelt.]
Somerfield A title belonging to the Lyttelton family. Several streets in this area have names associated with the Canterbury Association and, especially, the Lyttelton family. They were formed on Rural Section 76, 700 acres on the "Lower Lincoln Road, Heathcote Bridge" purchased by Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798-1857) and Conway Lucas Rose (1817-1910). Spencer’s interest in the land was passed on to his nephew, the
Bewdley Street, Bredon Lane, Clent Lane, Evesham Crescent, Gleig Place, Glynne Crescent, Lyttelton Street, Stanbury Street (formerly Droitwich Street), Stourbridge Street, Sumner Street and Wychbury Street. Also Hagley Park.
The Canterbury Association: a study of its members’ connections, p 67 Province of Canterbury, New Zealand : list of sections purchased to April 30 1863, p 2 "Rural Sections chosen", The Lyttelton Times, 29 March 1851, p 6 The evolution of a
A history of Canterbury, Vol 1, pp 242-245
“Suicide of Lord Lyttelton”, Evening Post, 22 May 1876, 2
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Hon. George William Spencer Lyttelton (1847-1913), the 4th son of George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton (1817-1876).
First appears in street directories in 1908.
city, pp 9 & 79
“Objection to naming of Droitwich Street”, The Press, 4 October 1958, p 12
“Naming of streets in new subdivisions”, The Press, 1 November 1958, p 10
Fraser Street Named after Frederick James Edgar Fraser (1907?-1964).
Papanui Fraser was headmaster of Papanui Primary School 1951-1963. Named in September 1968.
First appears in street directories in 1981.
Information on date of naming in a letter sent to the City Librarian from the Town Clerk dated 18 September 1968.
Papanui Primary School
Frederick Street
Waltham First mentioned in The Press in 1888.
First appears in street directories in 1892.
“Advertisements”, The Press, 20 September 1888, p 8
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Fredrica Lane Named after the daughter of the landowner where the street was developed.
Heathcote Developed at 140-144 Port Hills Road by Landform NZ. Named in 2008.
Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board agenda 6 August 2008 Report of the Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board to the Council meeting of 11 September 2008
Freebairn Street
Probably named after Archibald Freebairn (1925-1998).
Redwood Freebairn is listed in street directories living at 11 Prestons Road in 1966. First appears in street directories in 1970.
Freeman Street
Named after Frederick Willie Freeman (1881-1969).
Mount Pleasant
Freeman, an engineer, was a long-time Heathcote County Council member and also chairman for five years. Named by the developer, Cannon Estate Ltd. First appears in street directories in 1964.
Brigid Place, Challis Place, Clementine Lane, Hatherly Lane, Hilltop Lane, Janice Place, Michael Avenue, Osmond Lane and Roland Lane.
“Cannon Estate thirty years in development”, The Press, 23 August 1989, p 49
“Mr. F. W. Freeman was pioneer of road tunnel”, The Press, 5 November 1969, p 22
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Frensham Crescent
Frensham Street and Elstead Street.
Woolston Frensham Street and Elstead Street first appear in street directories in 1968.
The two streets were amalgamated, becoming Frensham Crescent on 23 February 1970.
Date of amalgamation of the streets in a letter sent to the City Librarian from the Town Clerk dated 24 March 1970.
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Freyberg Avenue
Godley Avenue
Formerly Godley Avenue. Named after John Robert Godley (1814-1861).
Re-named Freyberg Avenue. Named after Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg (1889-1963).
Riccarton Godley was a lawyer, writer, administrator, coloniser and public servant.
"The street in the new Riccarton subdivision on Mr John Brown's subdivision which runs off Deans Avenue near the saleyard was named Godley Avenue by the Riccarton Borough Council" on 2 September 1929.
Godley Avenue first appears in street directories in 1930.
Re-named Freyberg Avenue in 1941. Freyberg was a dentist, military leader, governor general.
[Wavell Street was originally suggested as the new name but councillors felt there was danger of confusion with Darvel Street.]
Riccarton, the founding borough: a short history, Canterbury’s founding settlement, p 114 "General news", The Press, 3 September 1929, p 8
“Freyberg Street”, The Press, 29 April 1941, p 8
View the biography of John Robert Godley in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G231
View the biography of Bernard Cyril Freyberg in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
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Friel Lane Named after Edward Shayle d'Arcy Friel (1921-2011).
Shirley Friel was the first President of the St Albans Shirley Working Men’s Club which was opened in 1995. He was later made a Life Member.
A right of way between 267 and 269A Hills Road developed by the Club. Named in 2010.
Shirley/Papanui Community Board Agenda 19 May 2010
“Workingmen’s club in St Albans”, The Press, 22 July 1955, p 9
Frith Place Burnside First appears in street directories in 1976.
Frome Place Named after Frome, a village in Somerset, England.
St Albans In a subdivision of two streets where placenames from Somerset were used.
Named on 16 June 1975.
Yeovil Place "Streets named", Pegasus Post, 9 July 1975, p 8
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Frosts Road Named after the Frost family.
Burwood William Thomas Frost (1854?-1888) and John Frost, a painter, were local residents. Tom Frost was a trainer of Henry Mace’s horses. First appears in street directories in 1903 with three residents listed.
Maces Road “New Brighton’s early mayors closely involved with area”, Pegasus Post, 19 March 1975, p 2
Turf tufts and toe-weights, pp 79-82
Fuchsia Place Halswell First appears in street directories in 1995.
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Fulton Avenue
Part of Wairarapa Terrace.
Named after Catherine Fulton, née Macfarlane, (1854?-1934).
Merivale Mrs Fulton was the widow of John Fulton (1850-1893), a banker of Rangiora. She is listed as a resident of Wairarapa Terrace, living at Mid-Lothian House 1900-1915, and of Fulton Avenue 1916-1936. The street was formed on her land.
Fulton Avenue was named on 27 September 1915 and first appears in street directories in 1916.
“General news,” The Press, 28 September 1915, p 6
"Obituary", The Press, 28 September 1893, p 5 (Obituary of John Fulton.)
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: F403
“Street names”, The Press, 13 September 1924, p 13
“If walls could talk”, Avenues, Issue 64, August 2009, pp 46-51
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Fusilier Place Named after fusiliers, a name given to various kinds of soldiers.
Hoon Hay Named because it runs off Mathers Road which is named after John Mather (1843-1921) who was a captain with the 14th King’s Hussars, a cavalry regiment in the British Army.
First appears in street directories in 1966.
Anvers Place and Mathers Road.
FW Delamain Drive
Named after Frederick William Delamain (1835-1910).
Yaldhurst Delamain, a horsebreeder, owned Yaldhurst, a racing stables and stud. He named it after his uncle’s place in Exeter, England. He sold this property in 1878. He was also a descendant of one of France's great cognac-making families. In the Delamain subdivision.
Named in 2007.
Delamain and Yaldhurst.
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board Transport and Roading Committee agenda 29 June 2007
Delamain cognac
"Obituary", Grey River Argus, 25 May 1910, p 1 “Mr F. W. Delamain”, The Press, 18 May 1910, p 8
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Fyfe Road Named after Colin Alexander Fyfe (1898-1951).
Wigram Fyfe was a sheep station cadet of Dunedin. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 19 February 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 100 students at the Flight School established by Sir Henry Wigram in 1917.
Named in 2010.
Wigram Skies Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 1 June 2010
Great Britain, Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificates, 1910-1950 as found on www.ancestry.com The Canterbury (NZ) Aviation Co. Ltd: the first one hundred pilots Wigram Skies
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Gabriel Grove Named after Sister Gabriel (Mary) Black (1862?-1898).
Halswell Sister Black was one of four Sisters to arrive in Christchurch from Ireland in September 1886. The street names in the Aidanfield subdivision are those of former Sisters of the Good Shepherd Order and former residents of the Good Shepherd Sisters’ Home at Halswell.
Named on 31 January 2001.
Aidanfield Biographical information supplied in 2007 by Fraser Faithfull, archivist with the Good Shepherd Provincialate in Abbotsford, Victoria in correspondence with Margaret Harper.
Other information supplied in 2007 by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council.
Mount Magdala : 80 years of care…with a short history of the institution
Pitch your tents on distant shores: a history of the Sisters of Good Shepherd in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Tahiti
Gainsborough Street
Hoon Hay One of the first streets to be developed in the Hoon Hay area. Families lived in pioneering conditions in small baches while building their own houses in their spare time. First appears in street directories in 1955.
"Brave new life in the suburbs", The Press, 8 May 1993, p 9
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Galbraith Avenue
Named after Augustus William de Rohan Galbraith (1877?-1957).
Avonside Galbraith was the city engineer 1925-1941. It is described as a “new road” in The Press in 1944. Originally a blind road, it was extended to Avonside Drive later that year.
First appears in street directories in 1946.
“Advertisements”, The Press, 11 July 1944, p 6
“Increase in rates”, The Press, 1 August 1944, p 4
“Obituary”, The Press, 12 March 1957, p 12
Gallaghan Close
Named after Sydney Albert Cole Gallichan (1899-1975?). [His name has been spelt incorrectly in the street name].
Wigram Gallichan was a cheesemaker of Palmerston North. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 4 May 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 100 students at the Flight School established by Sir Henry Wigram in 1917. Named in 2010.
Wigram Skies Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 1 June 2010
Great Britain, Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificates, 1910-1950 as found on www.ancestry.com The Canterbury (NZ) Aviation Co. Ltd: the first one hundred pilots
Wigram Skies
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Gallagher Drive
Named after Alfred William "Bill" Gallagher (1911-1990).
Gallagher was a farmer, inventor, manufacturing engineer, businessman and commercial fisherman. He developed the electric fence for farmers in 1936–1937 and founded the Gallagher Group to manufacture it. In the Sir James Wattie Estate. Named in 2015.
Sir James Wattie Estate
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 17 November 2015 "Names approved", Western News, 23 November 2015, p 5
View the biography of Alfred William Gallagher in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
Gallop Lane Yaldhurst In the Noble Village subdivision developed on the former Applefields land in Yaldhurst Road. The property has historical connections with the breeding and racing of standard breed horses. Named in 2011.
Apple Orchard Lane, George Noble Road, Founders Lane, Sir John McKenzie Avenue, Stirrup Lane, Stud Road. Also Noble Village.
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 15 August 2011 Riccarton/Wigram Community Board minutes 23 August 2011
Galway Avenue
Bryndwr Named by the Waimairi County Council on 1 May 1935.
"General news", The Press, 2 May 1935, p 10
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Gambia Street
Part of Loftus Street.
Named after the HMNZS Gambia.
Papanui HMNZS Gambia, launched in 1940, was New Zealand’s largest cruiser. It saw active service with the British Pacific Fleet during World War II. A Papanui war memorial street. First appears in street directories in 1946.
Loftus Street and Tillman Avenue.
Papanui Heritage Group
Chairman's report to the water supply and works committee, Christchurch City Council, 14 November 1945, held at Christchurch City Council archives.
Gamblins Road
Named after Joseph Gamblin (1820?-1896).
St Martins Gamblin was a bricklayer of St Martins.
First appears in street directories in 1905.
The Port Hills of Christchurch, p 180
"Birth", Star, 27 April 1896, p 2
Garden Road Fendalton First mentioned in The Press in 1880 when “53 beautiful villa sites adjoining Mr Wilkin’s residence at Holmwood” are advertised for sale.
First appears in street directories in 1898.
“Advertisements”, The Press, 7 October 1880, p 3
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Gardenhill Lane
Named because, when Richard May Downes Morten (1877-1950) and his brother, Arthur Roscoe Vernon Morten (1878-1931), sold off land from the Mount Pleasant run in 1912, market gardens were established and vegetables and early flowers grown for the market.
Redcliffs The brothers were the sons of Richard May Morten (1823-1909).
First appears in street directories in 1995.
Morten Settlement
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: M652 “Mr R. M. Morten”, The Press, 21 August 1909, p 10 "Death of Mr A. V. R. Morten", The Press, 13 April 1931, p 14
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Gardiners Road
Named after Henry Dent Gardiner (1828-1909).
Bishopdale, Harewood
Gardiner owned land in the Styx area but had moved away by 1865.
First appears in street directories in 1901 but mentioned there as early as 1887.
The Styx story: a study of a Christchurch River, p 32-33 Settling near the Styx River, pp 21 & 33-34
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G36 “Obituary”, Star, 5 February 1909, p 3 "Obituary", The Press, 8 February 1909, p 7
Garforth Green
Named after Samuel Garforth (1839-1901).
Halswell Garforth was a member and also chairman of the Halswell Road Board 1885-1901. In 1870 he purchased Spreydon Lodge.
Named in 2001.
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda January 2001
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 3 April 2002
“Obituary”, Star, 21 June 1901, p 4 G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G45 The Port Hills of Christchurch, p 262
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Garlands Road
Named after Edward Garland (1824?-1893).
Hillsborough, Woolston
Garland operated the Rocky Point Quarry in Port Hills Road.
Garland’s Creek first appears in the Star in a report of a meeting of the Heathcote Road Board in 1877.
The road linking Garland’s dairy farm, Hillsborough, with Opawa Road and the city, became Garlands Road.
First appears in street directories in 1892.
Z Arch 525
“The Heathcote Road Board”, Star, 28 April 1877, p 2 The Port Hills of Christchurch, p 162
Along the hills: a history of the Heathcote Road Board and the Heathcote County Council 1864-1989, p 14
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G47
"Fire destroys old house", The Press, 3 November 1958, p 10
“Garland-Hillsborough’s first family”, The Press, 10 January 1976, p 10
Garnett Avenue
Spreydon First appears in street directories in 1938.
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Garreg Road Garreg is a Welsh word meaning: the stone.
Bryndwr, Fendalton
The Jeffreys family owned a cottage in the village of Garreg in North Wales.
First appears in street directories in 1894.
Bryndwr, Jeffreys Road, Glandovey Road and other Welsh names in the area.
Fendall’s legacy: a history of Fendalton and north-west Christchurch, p 77
Garth Terrace
Walkers Valley Road and Walker Terrace.
Cashmere Both Walkers Valley Road and Walker Terrace appear for the first time in street directories in 1928. Re-named Garth Terrace which first appears in street directories in 1950.
Gartrell Drive Named after Ernest Charles Gartrell (1918?-1986).
Wigram Air Commodore Gartrell was Commanding Officer at Wigram December 1965-January 1966.
Named to continue the theme in the Wigram Skies subdivision of naming streets after people involved in the air force in New Zealand. Named in 2013.
Wigram Skies Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 6 August 2013
Minutes of the Riccarton/Wigram Community Board 6 August 2013
“Obituary”, The Press, 14 January 1968, p 7 Wigram: the birthplace of military aviation in New Zealand Wigram Skies
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Garvins Road Garvin's Road Named after Samuel Garvin (1873?-1939).
Hornby Garvin was a farmer of Sockburn. First mentioned in The Press in 1931 when the progress of the formation of Garvin's Road was discussed at a meeting of the Paparua County Council. First appears in street directories in 1957.
"County Councils", The Press, 5 September 1931, p 9
Gasson Street Part of Madras Street, the section of the street south of Moorhouse Avenue.
Named after the Gasson family.
Sydenham The Gasson family were early settlers in this area. Charles Gasson (1846?-1905), a carpenter, lived with his wife, Harriet, at Sixth Street (later Stanley Street). Named Gasson Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named.
"Street names changed: City council approves final list", The Press, 24 August 1948, p 3
“Death”, Star, 28 July 1905, p 3
“New names for streets”, The Press, 2 June 1948, p 3 “New street names”, The Press, 24 July 1948, p 2
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Gates Lane Named after Alfred Charles Harold Gates (1878?-1937).
Woolston Gates was a gardener of 47 Isis Street. His widow, Hannah Elizabeth Gates (1881?-1945), lived on at the property until her death.
Developed in Gates' block which is mentioned in The Press in 1843. First appears in street directories in 1993.
Radley Park “Advertisements”, The Press, 8 November 1943, p 1
Gatherer Street
Victoria Street
Formerly Victoria Street. Named after HM Queen Victoria (1819-1901). Re-named Gatherer Street. Named after James Gatherer (1830-1877) and his wife, Margaret Gatherer (1837?-1900).
Phillipstown Victoria Street first appears in street directories in 1892, running off Tuam Street. It ran parallel with Albert Street, later Saxon Street and was an unformed street. James Gatherer, a horse dealer, is mentioned in the Star in a report of a meeting of the Heathcote Road Board in 1877. Sections in Gatherer’s Paddock, Cashel Street East, are advertised in the Star for sale in 1879. Tenders were called for the formation of Gatherer Street
Saxon Street “The Heathcote Road Board”, Star, 28 April 1877, p 2 “Advertisements”, Star, 8 March 1879, p 1 “Advertisements”, Star, 15 July 1880, p 2
“Advertisements”, Star, 6 November 1884, p 2
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G75
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in 1880.
In 1884 Mrs Gatherer is listed living at Strickland House in Strickland Street. First appears in street directories in 1906.
Gatonby Place
Named after George Gatonby Stead (1841-1908).
Avonhead Stead was a grain merchant, racehorse owner and breeder and businessman. His son, Edgar Fraser Stead (1881-1949), built a substantial house at Ilam which is now the University of Canterbury staff club. It was the centre of a property of some 53 acres on the banks of the Avon River.
First appears in street directories in 1987.
Information supplied in 2008 by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council.
View the biography of George Gatonby Stead in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. “A strenuous career”, The Press, 30 April 1908, p 8
“Deaths”, Star, 30 April 1908, p 3 G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: S700
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Gayhurst Road
Named after Gayhurst, the home of Henry Joseph Campbell Jekyll (1844-1913) at 50 River Road.
Burwood, Dallington.
Jekyll farmed in Dallington and named his home after Gayhurst, a village in the Unitary District of Milton Keynes, England. He worked tirelessly for the Christchurch Beautifying Association.
First appears in street directories in 1903.
[At first the road went only from the bridge to McBratneys Road and was extended to meet Birchfield Avenue in 1961.]
Dallington Early Dallington, p 2
“Clifton Bay recognised”, The Press, 17 March 1961, p 21
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: J92 "Mr H. J. C. Jekyll", The Press, 27 February 1913, p 4 Dallington Community News, 3rd quarter 2005, p 3
Gazelle Lane Named after the Gazelle, a brig.
Redcliffs Continues the theme in the subdivision of naming streets after the small boats and scows that used to cross the Sumner bar from Lyttelton and deliver goods to Sumner and Ferrymead and up the Heathcote River. Developed off 85 Glenstrae Road. Named in 1998.
Daring Lane and Rifleman Lane.
Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board agenda 1 April 1998
Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board Agenda 3 September 2003
New Zealand shipwrecks : 195 years of disaster at sea, p 255
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Geelong Place Burnside First appears in street directories in 1962.
George Street Named after George Thompson Mulcock (1870-1944).
Riccarton Mulcock was a son of Edward Mulcock (1837-1915), owner of the land where this street was formed.
First appears in street directories in 1912.
Dallas Street, Elizabeth Street, Maxwell Street and Peverel Street.
Information supplied in 2008 by Paul Mulcock in an interview with Margaret Harper.
“Obituary”, The Press, 4 August 1915, Page 6 “Obituary”, The Press, 25 October 1944, p 6
George Bellew Road
Named after William George Patrick Bellew (1944-).
Bellew was chief executive officer at Christchurch International Airport 1988-2005.
“Challenge calling ‘mellow Bellew’”, The Press, 17 August 2005, p C6
George Noble Road
Named after George Bennett Noble (1898-1983).
Yaldhurst Noble was the head trainer at the Roydon Lodge stud.
In the Noble Village subdivision developed on the former Applefields land in Yaldhurst Road. The property has historical connections with the breeding and racing of standard breed horses. Named in 2011.
Apple Orchard Lane, Founders Lane, Gallop Lane, Sir John McKenzie Avenue, Stirrup Lane, Stud Road. Also Noble Village.
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 15 August 2011
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board minutes 23 August 2011
George Noble
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George Oliver Place
Kainga Formed on land belonging to the North Canterbury Catchment Board.
Named in 1987.
"New streets", The Papanui Herald, 18 August 1987, p 1
Information supplied in 2008 by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council.
George Seymour Quay
Named after the Sir George Seymour.
Lyttelton The Sir George Seymour was one of the First Four Ships that arrived in Lyttelton in December 1850. First appears in street directories in 1966.
Georgia Lane Casebrook Developed at 142A Highsted Road. The name was proposed by the owner.
Named in 1998.
Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 1 July 1998
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Georgina Street
Named after Lake Georgina, a small lake in the Canterbury high country.
The development company chose a theme of Canterbury lakes, rivers, lagoons and other water bodies for the street names in the subdivision.
In stage 1 of the Prestons Park subdivision on the south side of Prestons Road, opposite the Prestons subdivision.
Named in 2015.
Burwood/Pegasus Community Board agenda 21 September 2015 Burwood/Pegasus Community Board minutes 21 September 2015
Gerald Connolly Place
Named after Gerald Vincent Connolly (1928-1995).
Hornby Connolly was a company director.
Formed post-1997.
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Geraldine Street
Fitzgerald Street
Formerly Fitzgerald Street. Named after the FitzGerald family. Re-named Geraldine Street. Named after the clan name of the FitzGerald family.
Fitzgerald Street first appears in street directories in 1890. Re-named Geraldine Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named. The FitzGerald family came from Ireland.
Fitzgerald Avenue "Street names changed: City council approves final list", The Press, 24 August 1948, p 3
View the biography of James Edward FitzGerald in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
“New names for streets”, The Press, 2 June 1948, p 3 “New street names”, The Press, 24 July 1948, p 2
Gertrude Place
Named after Gertrude Eva Webb (1911-1991).
Avondale Gertrude Webb worked for the Christchurch Drainage Board for many years as a cleaner, and the street was named after her to show the affection she was held in by her employers. The Christchurch Drainage Board owned an area of low-lying land in Avondale which they filled up with dredgings from the river so the land could be subdivided and built on.
De Courcy Place, Hunt Lane, Mervyn Drive, Ogilvie Place, Scoular Place and Waddell Lane.
Information supplied in 2007 by Paul Baldwin, Christchurch City Council, in an interview with Margaret Harper. "Board may restrict sewage flows", The Press, 29 November 1984
Christchurch, swamp to city: a short history of the Christchurch Drainage Board 1875-1989, pp 92-93 "Subdivision auctioned", The Press, 20 February 1984 "Property market", The Press, 2 June 1984
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The Board named the streets formed there and former board and staff members of the Drainage Board were among those honoured in the naming of streets. At the time of naming it was intended to have 11 streets and cul-de-sacs in the new subdivision.
Named on 21 November 1984.
First appears in street directories in 1987.
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Gibbon Street Named after Edward Gibbon (1737-1794).
Sydenham Gibbon was author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880.
First appears in street directories in 1887.
Made a public street from 1 January 1888.
Report of the street naming committee, Sydenham Borough Council minute book 1879-1880, p 217, held at Christchurch City Council archives. “Borough Council”, Star, 20 January 1880, p 3
“Sydenham”, The Press, 22 December 1887, p 6
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Gibbs Place Named after the Gibbs family.
Halswell Henry Gibbs (1852-1929) was a farmer of Halswell, where he lived with his wife, Elizabeth. Their sons, Benjamin William Harold Gibbs (1884-1968) and Arthur Roland Gibbs (1897-1978), owned a threshing mill at Halswell. Arthur Gibbs and his wife, Ethel Mary Gibbs (1901-1948), lived at 29 Nicholls Road. 1984 electoral rolls list a number of Gibbs family members still living at that address. First appears in street directories in 1981.
A short history of Halswell, pp 44, 113-114
"Deaths", The Press, 3 July 1929, p 1
Gibson Drive Hornby First appears in street directories in 1977.
Gilbert Place Sydenham Named in 1957. “Street naming practices”, The Press, 1 June 1957, p 4
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Gilberthorpes Road
Named after Charles Gilberthorpe (1828-1915) and his wife Ann (1833-1921).
Hei Hei, Islington
The Gilberthorpes emigrated from Nottinghamshire on the Mary Ann in 1859 and farmed in what is now Hei Hei.
First mentioned in The Press in 1875 when the formation of 70 chains of it was discussed by the Templeton Road Board.
Information supplied in 2003 by Brian Gilberthorpe.
“Templeton”, Press, 13 September 1875, p 3
Gilberthorpe cottage Diary of Ann Gilberthorpe on board the May Ann, 1859
Gilby Street Travers Street Formerly Travers Street. Named after William Thomas Locke Travers (1819-1903). Re-named Gilby Street. May have been named after Charles Gilby (1856-1946).
Linwood Travers was a barrister and solicitor. He practised in Christchurch 1860-1868 and for several years was the member of parliament for Christchurch City. Travers Street is first mentioned in the Star in 1881.
First appears in street directories in 1887
Re-named Gilby Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named. Gilby was a schoolmaster and
Gilby area “Local & General”, Star, 5 May 1881, p 2 Our Environment Issue 39 Spring 2004 Gilby neighbourhood improvement plan, p 9 "Street names changed: City council approves final list", The Press, 24 August 1948, p 3
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: T367
“Death of Mr W. T. L. Travers”, The Press, 28 April 1903, p 3 “Death of Mr W. L. Travers”, Otago Witness, 29 April 1903, p 24 The Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Vol 3, pp 183-184
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also on the staff of the The Lyttelton Times. He founded Gilby’s Commercial College which survived until 1970.
Ettie: a life of Ettie Rout, pp 27, 32, 201
“New names for streets”, The Press, 2 June 1948, p 3 “New street names”, The Press, 24 July 1948, p 2
Gilders Grove Named after Digby Te’Ohia Leslie Gilders (1896-1980).
Heathcote Valley
Gilders was a private surveyor practising in Christchurch 1930s-1970s. He surveyed the subdivision which created the allotment subdivided to create the street. A subdivision at 19 Avoca Valley Road by W. J. Mauger.
Named in 1999.
Spreydon/Heathcote Community Board agenda 3 August 1999
Giles Place Shirley First appears in street directories in 1976.
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Gillatt Gardens
Could have been named after Charles Henry Gillatt (d. 1971).
Halswell Gillatt was a farmer of Halswell. [The source does not give his name, saying only that the street is named after a well-known market gardener.] Named in 2003.
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 2 July 2003
Gilmour Terrace
Named after Dr Bertram Hazelwood Gilmour (1888-1945).
Lyttelton Dr Gilmour was a doctor who practised in Lyttelton for 25 years.
First appears in street directories in 1950.
The story of Lyttelton, 1849-1949, p 145
“Obituary”, The Press, 24 May 1945, p 3
Gilwell Street Burwood Named on 15 March 1961. First appears in street directories in 1966.
Information on date of naming in a letter sent to the City Librarian from the Town Clerk dated 17 March 1961.
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Ginaty Lane Named after the Very Rev. Dean Laurentias Maria Ginaty (1836?-1911).
Halswell Ginaty was the Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. He was involved in fundraising activities to purchase the land at Halswell and build the Mount Magdala Home which was opened in 1888. The street names in the Aidanfield subdivision are those of former Sisters of the Good Shepherd Order and former residents of the Good Shepherd Sisters’ Home at Halswell.
Named on 31 January 2001.
Aidanfield “Haven for ‘fallen women’ to be housing subdivision”, NZ Catholic, 5 November 2000, p 13
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 31 January 2001
Mount Magdala : 80 years of care…with a short history of the institution
Pitch your tents on distant shores: a history of the Sisters of Good Shepherd in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Tahiti
“Obituary”, The Press, 5 June 1911, p 7 “Obituary”, Evening Post, 6 June 1911, p 2
Held firm by faith, pp 152-
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Girvan Street Named after Girvan, a coastal resort in Strathclyde, south-west Scotland.
Fendalton Named to continue the theme of naming Riccarton streets after places in Ayrshire, Scotland, from whence the Deans family had originated.
First appears in street directories in 1943.
[In June 1948 the Waimairi County Council wanted to re-name this street University Street when 24 streets in the County were re-named. This did not happen after protests from residents, among them John Deans.]
"Street names", The Press, 25 June 1948, p 9
"University street", The Press, 30 June 1948, p 2
"Street names", The Press, 25 June 1948, p 6
Glade Avenue Avon Glade Road and Avonglade Street.
Named after Avon Glade, a house in Stanmore Road.
Richmond Avon Glade Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1878 when land is advertised for sale there.
Re-named Glade Avenue on 24 May 1926 when 21 streets were re-named.
“Advertisements”, The Press, 1 June 1878, p 3 “Advertisements”, The Press, 28 May 1926, p 17
“Street names”, The Press, 22 February 1926, p 10
“Street names”, The Press, 26 May 1926, p 11
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Gladson Street
Sockburn Named by Ann Nora "Annie" Murray-Aynsley (1886-1973) on 26 August 1958 when she subdivided her land. First appears in street directories in 1962.
Algidus Street Information supplied by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council, in 2010.
Gladstone Quay
Gasworks Road was incorporated into Gladstone Quay.
Named after William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898).
Lyttelton Gladstone was four times British Prime Minister and also brother-in-law to Lord Lyttelton.
Gladstone Quay is mentioned in an obituary in The Press in 1885. First appears in street directories in 1916. In 1913 the street known as Gasworks Road was re-named Gladstone Quay.
"Obituary", The Press, 30 May 1885, p 3 “Lyttelton”, The Press, 9 July 1913, p 2
Glamis Place Named after Glamis, a castle in Scotland.
Cashmere First appears in street directories in 1966.
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Glandovey Road
Named after the Anglicised version of the name of the Jeffreys' castle, Glandyfi Castle, in Cardiganshire, Wales.
Fendalton, Strowan.
Charles Alured Jeffreys (1821-1904) retired to this castle in 1880 after leaving New Zealand. Glandovey Road became a public road on 24 June 1881. Sections for sale in "the Glandovey Road" in Bryndwr are advertised in The Press in 1890. First appears in street directories in 1894.
Bryndwr, Jeffreys Road, Idris Road and other Welsh names in the Fendalton/Bryndwr area.
Fendall’s legacy: a history of Fendalton and north-west Christchurch, p 74-76
"Advertisements", The Press, 4 November 1890, p 8
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: J85
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Glasgow Street
Named after Glasgow, a city in Scotland.
Phillipstown Named by John Alexander Redpath (1846?-1942) in 1909 when he subdivided his land there and laid out the new streets.
He founded the firm of J A Redpath & Sons Ltd., coal merchants. Redpath’s wife was born Rose Ann Glasgow (1843?-1921) and the street could also have been named in her honour.
First appears in street directories in 1913.
Newcastle Street “Drainage Board”, Star, 26 October 1887, p 4
“City Council”, The Press, 2 November 1909, p 8 “Street names”, The Press, 2 September 1930, p 12
[This article lists Harrow Street as named by Redpath. This is incorrect as Harrow Street was named much earlier and is not mentioned in the 1909 article].
“Obituary”, The Press, 12 December 1942, p 6
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: R84
Glasnevin Drive
Named after Glasnevin in Ireland.
Casebrook The developers wanted all the streets in the Glasnevin subdivision to have names associated with Dublin.
Named in 1997.
Glasnevin Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 29 October 1997
“Glasnevin”, The Press, 17 June 1998, p 34
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Glastonbury Drive
Named after Glastonbury in Somerset, England.
Burwood Glastonbury is in a reclaimed lowland area, similar to this area. It is also reputed to be where Sir Lancelot of Knights of the Round Table fame lived, hence the naming of later streets in the subdivision. First appears in street directories in 1995.
Excalibur Place, Gunwelloe Lane, Mullion Lane, St Keverne Close, Sedgemoor Close and Wedmore Close. Also Quantock Place. Also Travis Country Estate.
Gleig Place Named after the George Robert Gleig (1796-1888).
Spreydon Gleig was a member of the Canterbury Association from 27 March 1848 until he resigned 25 November 1851.
Several streets in this area have names associated with the Canterbury Association and, especially, the Lyttelton family because they were formed on Rural Section 76, 700 acres on the "Lower Lincoln Road, Heathcote Bridge" purchased by Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798-1857) and Conway Lucas Rose (1817-
Bewdley Street, Bredon Lane, Clent Lane, Evesham Crescent, Frankleigh Street, Glynne Crescent, Lyttelton Street, Stanbury Street (formerly Droitwich Street), Stourbridge Street, Sumner Street and Wychbury Street.
Also Hagley Park.
The Canterbury Association: a study of its members’ connections, pp 33-34 & 67 Province of Canterbury, New Zealand : list of sections purchased to April 30 1863, p 2 "Rural Sections chosen", The Lyttelton Times, 29 March 1851, p 6 The evolution of a
A history of Canterbury, Vol 1, pp 242-245 “Suicide of Lord Lyttelton”, Evening Post, 22 May 1876, 2
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1910).
Spencer’s interest in the land was passed on to his nephew, the Hon. George William Spencer Lyttelton (1847-1913), the 4th son of George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton (1817-1876). First appears in street directories in 1950.
city, pp 9 & 79
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Glenarm Terrace
Landsdowne Terrace
Named after the Glenarm Kennels which, in turn, were named after Glenarm Castle, the ancestral home of the Earls of Antrim in Northern Ireland.
Dallington Landsdowne Terrace is first mentioned in The Press in 1892 when land for sale there is advertised. First appears in street directories in 1903. Re-named Glenarm Terrace in June 1948 when 24 streets in the Waimairi County were re-named. Hiram Hunter (1874-1966), a labourer, teamster, trade unionist and local politician, bred dogs at the Glenarm Kennels. They were on his land on the eastern side of, and towards, the river end of Gayhurst Road.
Early Dallington, p 10 "Advertisements", The Press, 21 April 1892, p 8
"Street names", The Press, 25 June 1948, p 9
View the biography of Hiram Hunter in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
"Obituary", The Press, 11 May 1966, p 10 "Street names", The Press, 25 June 1948, p 6
Glen Arrife Place
Named after Glen Arrife, a high country station in the Rakaia River catchment.
Halswell The streets in the Broken Run subdivision are all named after high country stations.
Named by the developers, Brian Gillman Ltd.
Named in 2005.
Broken Run, Cromdale Place, Grassington Lane, Highpeak Place, Longspur Avenue and Ryton Way. Also Broken Run.
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 12 July 2005
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Glenbarr Lane
Named after Glenbarr, a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies on the west coast of the Kintyre peninsula.
In Stage 6 and 7 of the Kintyre Estates subdivision, where streets are named after names and features in the locality of Kintyre in Scotland. Named in 2015.
Kintyre Estates Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 17 March 2015 Riccarton/Wigram Community Board minutes 17 March 2015
Glen Bridge Lane
Named because there is a bridge there and looking over the bridge through the trees gives the impression of a glen.
Bishopdale A right-of -way at 3A Crofton Road.
Developed by Netheravon Holdings.
Named in 2007.
Fendalton/Waimairi Community Board agenda 8 May 2007
Glenconnor Place
Burwood First appears in street directories in 1993.
Glencullen Drive
Named after Glencullen, a suburb of Dublin.
Casebrook In the Glasnevin subdivision where all the roads are named after suburbs, localities or features in the vicinity of Dublin. Named in 1998.
Glasnevin Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 1 April 1998
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Gleneagles Terrace
Probably named after Gleneagles, a glen in the Ochil Hills of Perth and Kinross in Scotland.
Ilam Developed by Maurice R. Carter Ltd. Formed on part of the driveway at 58 Burnside Road (later Memorial Avenue) into a large house named Hatherley. First appears in street directories in 1958.
"Maurice R. Carter Ltd. built "Home of Year", The Press, 10 November 1958, pp 16-18
"Foremost developer and donor", The Press, 22 October 2005, p D19
“Maurice Carter leaves behind immense legacy”, The Press, 10 May 2011, p A3
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Glenelg Spur Named after Glenelg, the home there of Cecil Claude Morton Ollivier (1878-1935).
Hillsborough Ollivier was an accountant, and at the time of his death, one of the city’s best-known businessmen. He had bought the house, then called Raroa, from George Bowron in 1922, and re-named it Glenelg. The driveway leading up to the house became Glenelg Spur. After Ollivier’s death, Glenelg was purchased by the trustees of the King George V Memorial Fund Board, and, from 1 August 1939, it became a permanent health camp.
First appears in street directories in 1946.
The Port Hills of Christchurch, pp 162-164
“Obituary”, The Press, 27 July 1935, p 18
“Site for health camp”, The Press, 16 April 1938, p 10 “Permanent health camp”, The Press, 29 July 1939, p 7
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Glenharrow Avenue
Named after Charles Alexander Harrow (1911-1989).
Avonhead Harrow bought 19 acres of land in 1944 which had formerly belonged to Kent Lodge at 35 Yaldhurst Road. Four generations of his family have been berry growers in Christchurch.
First appears in street directories in 1970.
Harrowdale Drive and Kent Lodge Avenue.
Information supplied in 2008 by Brian and Ruth Murphy, owners of Kent Lodge, in an interview with Margaret Harper.
Glenmore Avenue
Casebrook First appears in street directories in 1962.
Glen Oaks Drive
Northwood Developed by Belfast Developments Ltd and Styx Developments Ltd. The developers “chose names suitable for the length of the road rather than trying to establish a common theme throughout the subdivision”. Named in 2000.
Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 29 March 2000 Report of the Shirley/Papanui Community Board to the Council 19 April 2000
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Glenrowan Avenue
Named after Glenrowan, the town in Australia where Ned Kelly (1855?-1880) was captured.
Avondale Kelly was Australia’s most famous bushranger. According to family legend, Eliza Emily Muirson (1856?-1943) fed Kelly while he was on the run. Mrs Muirson was the grandmother of Reginald Gordon Vivian Muirson (1913-1990), the builder of houses in this street, First appears in street directories in 1970.
Edna Street, Reginald Street, Sharlick Street, Vivian Street and Woolley Street.
Information supplied in 2008 by Mardi Muirson in an interview with Margaret Harper. Mardi Muirson is married to Reginald Muirson’s nephew.
Glenroy Street
London Street and Graham Street.
Woolston London Street first appears in the Star in a report of a meeting of the Heathcote Road Board in 1877 and first appears in street directories in 1887. Re-named Graham Street in 1922. Re-named Glenroy Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named.
“The Heathcote Road Board”, Star, 28 April 1877, p 2 "General news", The Press, 14 February 1922, p 6 "Street names changed: City council approves final list", The Press, 24 August 1948, p 3
“Street names”, The Press, 13 September 1924, p 13 “New names for streets”, The Press, 2 June 1948, p 3
“New street names”, The Press, 24 July 1948, p 2
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Glenstrae Road
Named after Glenstrae, their home in Scotland, by Francis "Frank" Edward McGregor (1916-1981) and his wife.
Redcliffs McGregor was a local photographer and a resident of the street in 1960.
First appears in street directories in 1960.
Sumner to Ferrymead: a Christchurch history, p 207
Glenturret Drive
Named after a neighbouring farm.
In stages 1-4 of the Highsted Residential subdivision. The names were suggested by the developer. Named in 2014.
Broadstairs Avenue, Farrelly Place, Faversham Lane, Grayshott Avenue and Tullet Park Drive.
Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 17 December 2014
Highsted Residential
Gloaming Place
Named after Gloaming, a racehorse.
Sockburn Gloaming was bred in Victoria and was trained in New Zealand. His racing career lasted from 1918-1927 and he died in 1932 aged 17 years. First appears in street directories in 1968.
Gloaming, the wonder horse
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Globe Bay Drive
Named after the NZ Cup pacer, Globe Bay.
Templeton Named by local horse trainer, Jack Carmichael, and Peter Petersen of the Templeton Residents’ Association. Locals had asked that the names of prominent pacers and trotters be used for street names because of the numerous training establishments in the area. Developed by Suburban Estates Ltd. Named in 2005.
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 12 April 2005
Gloucester Street
The section of road between Woodham Road and the Avon River was formerly named Delamain Road and was incorporated into Gloucester Street.
Named after Gloucester, an English bishopric.
Linwood, Central city, Avonside
One of the original streets of Christchurch named in 1850 by surveyors Captain Joseph Thomas (b. 1803?) and Edward Jollie (1825-1894). The names were taken from bishoprics listed in Burke's Peerage.
First mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1852 when 1/4 acre sections are advertised for sale there.
Reproduction of Edward Jollie's 1850 map of the proposed city. Department of Lands and Survey, Christchurch. Historical Maps "Advertisements", The Lyttelton Times, 7 August 1852, p 2
Reminiscences of a surveyor, runholder
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: D193, J169 and T144 “Obituary”, The Press, 9 August 1894, p 5e
“Obituary”, Star, 9 August 1894, p 1
View the biography of Joseph Thomas
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The section of Gloucester Street from Woodham Road to the Avon River was named Delamain Road before 1916. Named after Frederick William Delamain (1835-1910) who owned part of Rural Section 125, 100 acres in “River Avon, Slaughter-house Road” (later Woodham Road), land originally purchased by G. A. C. Dashwood.
Delamain Road does not appear in street directories but is mentioned in the Star in 1907.
and politician in Canterbury and Otago, 1841-1865, pp 28-29 Early days of Canterbury, p 27 The evolution of a city, p 13 Old Christchurch in picture and story, pp 50-51
“Street names in Christchurch”, The Press, 6 December 1952, p 3
Province of Canterbury, New Zealand : list of sections purchased to April 30 1863, p 4 “Rural Sections chosen”, The Lyttelton Times, 26 April 1851, p 3 "Today's
in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
“Mr F. W. Delamain”, The Press, 18 May 1910, p 8
"Obituary", Grey River Argus, 25 May 1910, p 1
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Advertisements", Star, 4 May 1907, p 6
Early Dallington, p 10
Glovers Road Glover's Road Named after Hawley William Glover (1836?-1910).
Halswell Glover was a farmer of Halswell. Glover's Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1877.
"Advertisements", The Press, 6 November 1877, p 1
"Deaths", Star, 16 September 1910, p 3
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G220
Glue Place Named after William Percy Glue (1888-1980).
Somerfield Glue was a city councillor 1941-1971.
Named in 1960.
“Names for new streets”, The Press, 22 September 1960, p 14
“Mr Glue served Chch for 30 years”, The Press, 17 July 1980, p 4
Fendalton Houses of 1920s and 1930s - the Glue brothers’ contribution
Glynne Crescent
Named after Mary, Baroness Lyttelton, née Glynne, (1813-
Spreydon Mary was the wife of Sir George William Lyttelton, 4th Lord Lyttelton, Baron of Frankley (1817-1876). He
Bewdley Street, Bredon Lane, Clent Lane, Evesham Crescent,
The Canterbury Association: a study of its members’ connections, p 67
A history of Canterbury, Vol 1, pp 242-245 “Suicide of Lord
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1857). was a member of the Canterbury Association from 1848.
Several streets in this area have names associated with the Lyttelton family because they were formed on Rural Section 76, 700 acres on the "Lower Lincoln Road, Heathcote Bridge" purchased by Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798-1857) and Conway Lucas Rose (1817-1910). Spencer’s interest in the land was passed on to his nephew, the Hon. George William Spencer Lyttelton (1847-1913), the 4th son of George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton (1817-1876).
First appears in street directories in 1950.
Frankleigh Street, Gleig Place, Lyttelton Street, Stanbury Street (formerly Droitwich Street), Stourbridge Street, Sumner Street and Wychbury Street. Also Hagley Park.
Province of Canterbury, New Zealand : list of sections purchased to April 30 1863, p 2
"Rural Sections chosen", The Lyttelton Times, 29 March 1851, p 6
The evolution of a city, pp p & 79
Lyttelton”, Evening Post, 22 May 1876, 2
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Godfrey Place Named after Stuart Palairet Godfrey (1901-1959).
Ilam Godfrey was an old boy of Christ’s College and a New Zealand rowing representative. He was well-known for his work for the school and for the Christ’s College Old Boys’ Association. He became a fellow of the school in 1947.
One of the streets in a subdivision formed on land belonging to Christ's College. First appears in street directories in 1987.
Corfe Street, Hare Street, Holderness Place, Parr Place, Sayers Crescent, Tripp Place, Tyndale Place and Worthy Street.
“Obituary”, The Press, 14 July 1959, p 14
Godley Drive Named after John Robert Godley (1814-1861).
Sumner Godley was a lawyer, writer, administrator, coloniser and public servant. He is described on his statue in Cathedral Square as the founder of Canterbury. First appears in street directories in 1993.
View the biography of John Robert Godley in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
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Godley Quay Named after John Robert Godley (1814-1861).
Lyttelton Godley was a lawyer, writer, administrator, coloniser and public servant. He is described on his statue in Cathedral Square as the founder of Canterbury. First mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1852 when 1/4 acre sections are advertised for sale there.
Lyttelton: port and town : an illustrated history, p 28
"Advertisements", The Lyttelton Times, 7 August 1852, p 2
View the biography of John Robert Godley in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
Godwit Street Named after the godwit, a sea-bird that frequents the south shore.
Southshore One of six streets running in alphabetical order from north to south intersecting Rockinghorse Road.
Named in September 1955.
Caspian Street, Heron Street, Penguin Street, Plover Street and Tern Street.
“Names chosen for streets”, The Press, 20 September 1955, p 15
New Brighton a regional history 1852-1970, p 121
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Goldsmith Place
Oliver Goldsmith Street and Goldsmith Street.
Named after Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774).
Waltham Goldsmith was the author of The Vicar Of Wakefield. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. First appears in street directories as Oliver Goldsmith Street in 1887. Becomes Goldsmith Street in 1892 and Goldsmith Place in 1983 when the Brougham Street Expressway was put through.
Report of the street naming committee, Sydenham Borough Council minute book 1879-1880, p 217, held at Christchurch City Council archives. “Borough Council”, Star, 20 January 1880, p 3
Golf Links Road
Shirley Golf Links Road
Named because it is the road leading to the Shirley Golf Club.
Shirley Shirley Golf Links Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1905.
Golf Links Road first appears in street directories in 1916.
[In street directories of the 1920s it is sometimes listed with the alternate name of Shirley Links Road.]
“Advertisements”, Star, 24 June 1905, p 6
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Goodall Place Named after Maurice John Goodall (1928-2010).
Redwood Goodall was bishop of Christchurch 1984-1990. One of the streets in the area formed on land belonging to Christ’s College and given names of members of the school staff or those associated with the school. First appears in street directories in 1991.
Creese Place, Denniston Crescent, Jenkins Avenue, Lowry Avenue, Monteath Place, Murchison Avenue, Pyatt Place, Solomon Avenue, Strack Place and Wakelin Place.
“Not happy on staff names”, The Papanui Herald, 13 March 1973, p 7
“Ex-bishop dies”, The Press, 28 October 2010, p A3
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Goodman Street
Clonmel Street.
Formerly Albert Street. Named after Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861), the husband of Queen Victoria. Re-named Clonmel Street. Named after Clonmel, a town in Tipperary, Ireland. Re-named Goodman Street. Named after Leonard Oswald Goodman (1912-1956).
Burwood Formerly Albert Street. One of three streets named after members of Queen Victoria's family. Re-named Clonmel Street by the Waimairi County Council on 8 February 1933.
Re-named Goodman Street in June 1948 when 24 streets in the Waimairi County were re-named.
Goodman was a market gardener who subdivided a property in this area. His father, Albert Edward Goodman (1875-1922), also a market gardener, had previously owned the land. Goodman Street was extended in 1967.
Alice Street and Liggins Street. Also Irene Street and Reaby Street.
Burwood All Saints’ Church 1877-1977, p 42
Waimairi County Council, minute book, 1931-1936, p 308 held at Christchurch City Council archives.
"Streets renamed", The Press, 9 February 1933, p 15 "Street names changed", The Press, 25 June 1948, p 9
"Naval names for streets", The Press, 28 April 1967, p 12
"Street names changed", The Press, 25 June 1948, p 6 “Loss of market garden land”, The Press, 3 September 1954, p 3
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Gordon Avenue
Probably named after John Gordon Bannerman.
St Albans Bannerman was an estate agent. In street directories of 1903 he is living at 34 St Albans Street, on the corner of that street and a right-of-way. In that same year he is advertising sections for sale in Gordon Avenue with the plan to be seen at his office at 174 Lichfield Street. In 1904 the right-of-way is named Gordon Avenue. In 1911 Bannerman was living at Dudley Creek, Shirley. He and his wife, Caroline (1872?-1958), then moved to Bondi in New South Wales, Australia.
"Properties for sale or to let", Star, 9 July 1903, p 1
"The skinning of Skinner", NZ Truth, 3 September 1910, p 5 “The skinning of Skinner”, NZ Truth, 8 October 1910, p 5
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Gore Street Named after Gore in Southland.
Halswell Named by the developer, Karl Scott (1910-1997). He was the son of William and Annie Isabel Scott. His father emigrated to New Zealand in the early 1900s and was borough electrical engineer for some years at Gore. Karl Scott was born there.
First appears in street directories in 1964.
Oaklands Information supplied in 2008 by Bede Cosgriff (d. 2011) in an interview with Margaret Harper.
A short history of Halswell, p 99
Turf tufts and toe-weights
Gosforth Grove
Named after Gosforth, a village and civil parish in the Lake District, in the Borough of Copeland in Cumbria, England.
Westmorland Named to continue the theme in the subdivision of naming streets after places in historic Westmorland in England, since 1974 part of Cumbria. Named in 2013.
Westmorland Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 17 September 2013 Minutes of the Riccarton/Wigram Community Board minutes 17 September 2013
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Gosling Crescent
Named after William Gosling (1820-1900).
Halswell William and Lucy Gosling and their children, Charles, Mary, William and Elizabeth, arrived in Canterbury on the Randolph in 1850 as assisted passengers. Gosling was an agricultural blacksmith.
The streets in the Longhurst subdivision are named after local identities and homesteads in the locality.
Named in 2012.
Airedale Place. Also Longhurst.
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 3 April 2012
Passenger list for the Randolph "Fatal accident at Timaru", The Press, 3 October 1900, p 5 Longhurst
Gosport Street
Named after Gosport, a municipal borough of Hampshire, west of Portsmouth.
Aranui In an area where all the streets are named after places in the county of Hampshire. There is a Christchurch city and a River Avon in Hampshire, England. Named in 1955.
“New streets in Christchurch”, The Press, 28 June 1955, p 6
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Gosset Street Named after Archdeacon Charles Hilgrove Gosset (1851-1923).
St Albans Gosset was the vicar of Woolston 1891-1902, and from July 1902, vicar of St. Mary’s Anglican Church, Merivale.
One of three streets named in 1923 and formed on land that had been originally owned by the Anglican diocese. Sales of land were made for “increased revenue for Diocesan purposes”. First appears in street directories in 1924.
Carrington Street and Jacobs Street.
St Albans: from swamp to suburbs: an informal history, p 20 The Canterbury church property : articles, p 35
"Advertisements", The Press, 5 May 1923, p 20 "Story of 700 acres of church property", The Press, 25 February 1947, p 6
The Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican Clergy in the Pacific
G. R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G299
“Obituary”, The Press, 2 April 1923, p 8
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Gothic Place Ilam Henry Alfred Leslie "Harry" Vale (1889-1988), a Christchurch heating engineering pioneer, purchased 11 acres of land there in 1910 and later laid out and developed 4 acres of gardens at 203 Ilam Road. The property extended from Ilam Road to Waimairi Road. The street was formed on a subdivision of his land. First appears in street directories in 1972.
Hanover Place, Tudor Avenue and Tuirau Place.
Information supplied in 2009 by John Vale, Harry Vale's nephew, in an interview with Margaret Harper.
“Old property sold”, The Press, 21 February 1976, p 18 "Obituary", The Press, 6 June 1988, p 3
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Gould Crescent
Named after George Gould (1823-1889).
Woolston Gould was an agent for owners and occupiers of sheep stations, an exporter of wheat and wool from Canterbury, and a director of the New Zealand Shipping Company. He was a shareholder in the Christchurch Conveyance Company which ran the lighters Fanny and Fancy between Lyttelton and the Heathcote River in 1852-1853. One of three streets in close proximity named in 1986 to give a maritime theme to the area. Formed because of the Woolston Cut flood relief development.
Alport Place and Palinurus Road.
“What’s in a name?”, Shoreline: the community news magazine, April 1995, pp 18-20
George Gould
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G306
"In Memoriam", Star, 28 March 1889, p 2 “Street-name changes proposed in Woolston”, The Press, 4 October 1985, p 5
Goulding Avenue
Named after David Stewart Goulding (1919-2012).
Hornby Goulding was a barber of Hornby 1943-1992. The street where his shop was situated was named in his honour.
Developed in 1965 as part of
“Proposal for new road at Hornby”, The Press, 3 August 1965, p 16 "Hornby rich in history",
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the master traffic plan for the metropolitan area. The newspaper report in 1965 says "the authority's plan provides for a new road off Shands Road opposite Amyes Road, crossing private property to intersect the Main South Road and continue along the west boundary of the Presbyterian Church property, turning along the north boundary of the IGA land and ending at Carmen Road south of the Working Men's Club". From Shands Road to the Main South Road named Goulding Avenue. From the Main South Road to Carmen Road named Chalmers Street.
Christchurch Mail, 1 November 2006, p 8
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Governors Bay Road
Governor’s Bay Road
Named after Sir George Grey (1812-1898).
Cass Bay Grey was governor of New Zealand 1845-1853 and 1861-1868.
Governor’s Bay Road is first mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1859 when land for sale there is advertised.
Appears in street directories in 1892, the first year Lyttelton streets are listed.
“Advertisements”, The Lyttelton Times, 19 January 1859, p 6
View the biography of George Grey in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
Gowerton Place
Part of Vogel Street.
Named after Gowerton in Wales.
Richmond Gowerton was the birthplace of George Manning (1887-1976), the mayor of Christchurch 1958-1968.
Every year at Gowerton School a major prizegiving award is given in Sir George's memory as he attended the school.
Named in 1959.
Vogel Street “Streets named and changed”, The Press, 1 September 1959, p 16
“Sir George - a man of the people", The Press, 30 December 1976, p 2
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Grace Close Halswell Named to continue the street naming theme of earlier stages of the subdivision, that of using the names of Sisters of the Order of the Good Shepherd. Named on 3 March 2004.
Aidanfield Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 3 March 2004
Mount Magdala : 80 years of care…with a short history of the institution
Pitch your tents on distant shores: a history of the Sisters of Good Shepherd in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Tahiti
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Gracefield Avenue
Hyndman’s Lane and Gracefield Avenue.
Formerly Hyndman’s Lane. Named after Peter Hyndman (1843-1914).
Re-named Gracefield Street which was combined with Grace Avenue, named after owner Francis James Grace, to become Gracefield Avenue.
Central city Hyndman, a builder, lived at 857 Colombo Street. His property backed on to where the lane was formed. Hyndman's Lane first appears in 1894 street directories running off 108 Salisbury Street. By 1909 it leads to Grace Avenue although Grace Avenue is not listed as a street address. Land in Grace Avenue is advertised for sale in the Star in 1907. By 1912 Hyndman's Lane has been re-named Gracefield Street. Grace Avenue ran off Durham Street and Gracefield Street off Salisbury Street.
The two were combined to become Gracefield Avenue in 1930.
"Advertisements", Star, 6 August 1907, p 2
“Advertisements”, The Press, 2 August 1907, p 12 “Advertisements”, The Press, 12 January 1907, p 16
"General news", The Press, 10 September 1921, p 8 "City Council", The Press, 1 September 1930, p 16
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: H943 "Deaths", Sun, 26 September 1914, p 1
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Grafton Street
William Street
Formerly William Street. Named after William Barbour Wilson (1819-1897).
Re-named Grafton Street.
Waltham Wilson was a nurseryman, businessman and local politician.
In a subdivision of Rural Section 48, land owned by William Wilson (1819-1897). William Street appears on an 1874/75 Deposit Plan. First appears in the Star in an advertisement in 1880. It does not appear in street directories but appears on an 1890 map.
Re-named Grafton Street in 1888.
Barbour Street, Charles Street, Grenville Street, Henry Street, Laurence Street, Short Street, Williams Street and Wilsons Road.
Plan of suburban property (Rural Section 48) situated on the Ferry Road near the East Town Belt belonging to William Wilson Esq., Deposit Plan 27 1874/75. Map held by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council. [The land, 200 acres in Ferry Road, had originally been purchased by G. Draper and his son-in law, James Edward FitzGerald (1818?-1896).] “Rural sections chosen”, Lyttelton Times, 15 March 1851, p 7
Province of Canterbury, New Zealand : list of sections purchased to April 30 1863, p 2 View the biography of William Barbour Wilson in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: W620
“William Wilson – landowner and early nurseryman”, The Press, 20 May 1978, p 13
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Grahams Road
Named after Douglas Graham (1818-1872).
Burnside, Ilam, Avonhead, Bishopdale
Graham arrived in Canterbury in 1852 and was the manager of John Deans’ cattle from 1854 until his death.
Grahams Road was cut through his holding of 141 acres which he leased to William Boag. His home was near the corner of Grahams Road where Flay Park is now located. The Star in 1892 refers to a sale of land at Graham's Estate and describes it as the largest and most important sale of suburban properties held in Canterbury for many years. First appears in street directories in 1912, running from Greers Road to Wairarapa Road (later Wairakei Road). Two residents are listed – both farmers.
Burnside Fendall’s legacy: a history of Fendalton and north-west Christchurch, p 88 “Latest locals”, Star, 9 January 1892, p 3 "Land Sales", Star, 26 March 1892, p 3
Beyond the city: the land and its people, Riccarton, Waimairi, Paparua, p 14
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G319a
"The late Mr Douglas Graham", Star, 13 March 1872, p 2
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Grampian Street
Fosters Road Named after the Grampians, a range of mountains stretching across the highlands of Scotland.
Casebrook Fosters Road first appears in street directories in 1936. Re-named Grampian Street in June 1948 when 24 streets in the Waimairi County were re-named.
"Street names changed", The Press, 25 June 1948, p 9
"Street names changed", The Press, 25 June 1948, p 6
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Grange Street Named after The Grange, the home of Dr James William Earle (1805-1878).
Hillsborough Earle emigrated on the Randolph in 1850. He bought Rural Section 44, 50 acres, “Christchurch District, near Hills Road” (later Port Hills Road). He practised medicine in Lyttelton, later moving to Opawa where he built The Grange.
Edward Steane Harley (1840?-1901), an accountant and a well-known cricketer, owned The Grange later.
First appears in street directories in 1901.
The northern section of Kennedy Crescent was incorporated into Grange Street in 1963; the southern section remained as Kennedy Crescent.
[Jarden Place was originally suggested as a name for the northern section.]
Earl Street and Kennedy Place.
Province of Canterbury, New Zealand : list of sections purchased to April 30 1863, p 2
“Rural Sections chosen”, The Lytelton Times, 15 March 1851, p 7
The Port Hills of Christchurch, p 169
Information on date of naming in a letter sent to the City Librarian from the Town Clerk dated 29 April 1963.
Passenger list for the Randolph Along the hills: a history of the Heathcote Road Board and the Heathcote County Council 1864-1989, p 14
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: E13
“Obituary”, Star, 22 June 1894, p 1 (Mrs Earle’s obituary)
“Obituary”, The Press, 11 June 1901, p 2 “Obituary”, Star, 10 June 1901, p 3
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Grangewood Lane
Burnside Formed on the driveway once leading to the homestead owned by Mabel Winifred Witbrock (1893-1991). This house was moved to Old Tai Tapu Road. Developed about 1990.
Annell Place, Parkham Drive and Witbrock Place.
Information supplied in 2010 by Ngaire Anne Kelly, granddaughter of Annie Witbrock, in an interview with Margaret Harper.
Grantley Street
Named after the middle name of William Henry Grantley Norton (1858-1912).
New Brighton, North New Brighton
Norton was a member of the auctioneering firm of Tonks Norton which split up land in North New Brighton in 1890s.
First mentioned in The Press in 1911.
First appears in street directories in 1931.
Tonks Road and Shaw Avenue.
"Advertisements", The Press, 27 May 1911, p 15
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: N155
Granton Lane Spreydon First appears in street directories in 1993.
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Grants Road Named after Donald Grant (1819-1870).
Papanui Originally an accommodation road ie. a route for stock. Grant was a carpenter of Lanarkshire. He and his wife and their six children arrived in Canterbury on the Royal Stuart in October 1861. He had settled in Papanui by 1865, buying part of Rural Section 3, Papanui Bush, land originally bought by Ann Bowen, and also part of Rural Section 203, Main North Road, from John Pain Restell (1825-1885).
Grant's Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1872. Grants Road first appears in street directories in 1900.
Restell Street Christine Grant, Papanui Heritage Group
"Rural Sections chosen", Lyttelton Times, 1 March 1851, p 6
"Lyttelton", The Press, 12 October 1861, p 4 "Advertisements", Lyttelton Times, 11 April 1865, p 2
"Road Boards", The Press, 1 January 1872, p 2
“Inquest”, Thames Star, 2 November 1885, p 2
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Grassington Lane
Named after Grassington Station, situated behind Rotherham on the banks of the Waiau River.
Halswell The streets in the Broken Run subdivision are all named after high country stations.
Named by the developers, Brian Gillman Ltd.
Named in 2005.
Broken Run, Cromdale Place, Glen Arrife Place, Highpeak Place, Longspur Avenue and Ryton Way. Also Broken Run.
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 12 July 2005
Grassmere Street
Green’s Road Formerly Green’s Road. Named after the Rev. George Rowney Green (1794-1860).
Re-named Grassmere Street. Named after Lake Grasmere in the Lakes District, Cumbria, England. [Grasmere has been mis-spelt in the naming of the street.]
Papanui The Rev. Green, a fellow of Eton and Rector of Everdon in Northamptonshire, selected Rural Section 308, just north of Papanui (North Road) “next to Dunnage”. He was an absentee landowner. His brother, Henry Green of Papanui, advertises for work as a tutor in The Lyttelton Times in 1852. Green’s Road appears in street directories in 1894. Re-named Grassmere Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named.
Province of Canterbury, New Zealand : list of sections purchased to April 30 1863, p 8
“Advertisements”, The Lyttelton Times, 17 January 1852, p 1 “Street naming”, The Press, 3 November 1909, p 3 "Street names changed: City council approves final list", The Press, 24 August 1948, p 3
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G385 “Street names”, The Press, 6 October 1909, p 6
“New names for streets”, The Press, 2 June 1948, p 3
“New street names”, The Press, 24 July 1948, p 2
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Graycliffe Street
Named after Gray Cliffe, a property at the foot of the Port Hills, near Tai Tapu.
[The name of the property has been mis-spelt in the naming of the street.]
Halswell Named Gray Cliffe by Henry Francis Gray (1838-1905) when he bought the property in 1875. He sold it to Sir Robert Heaton Rhodes (1861-1956) in 1893. Rhodes commissioned Frederick Strouts to design a grand country house, Otahuna, on the site. This was completed in 1895.
The streets in the Longhurst subdivision are named after local identities and homesteads in the locality.
Named in 2012.
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 3 April 2012
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G364 View the biography of Robert Heaton Rhodes in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
Longhurst
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Grayshott Avenue
Named after Sittingbourne, Kent.
Named because the street is in the Highsted subdivision. Highsted is a town in Hampshire that borders Kent. In stages 1-4 of the Highsted subdivision. The names were suggested by the developer.
Named in 2014. NB Highsted Road, and consequently Highsted Residential, are named after John Kirby Highsted (1817-1871), not the town in Kent, England.
Broadstairs Avenue, Farrelly Place, Faversham Lane, Glenturret Drive and Tullet Park Drive. Also Highsted Road.
Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 17 December 2014
Highsted Residential
Great Gables Lane
Named after Mount Great Gables, a mountain in the Lakes District in England.
Huntsbury Formed post-1997. Broad Oaks
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Greenaway Street
Named after John Greenaway (1831?-1880).
Halswell Greenaway was a nurseryman and seedsman. In a later stage of the Longhurst subdivision where the streets are named after members of the Canterbury Militia of 1860.
Named in 2012.
Longhurst Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 16 October 2012
Christchurch Militia List 1860 "Advertisements", The Lyttelton Times, 9 June 1860, p 6 “Fatal accident on the tramway”, Star, 1 December 1880, p 3 “Christchurch”, New Zealand Tablet, 10 December 1880, p 14
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G398
Longhurst
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Greenbank Street
Named by the development company to keep with the existing theme of water and water features. The name was also considered appropriate for the locality.
Parklands In the Waitikiri Stage 3 (Lake stage) subdivision. Named in 2011.
Waitikiri Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 15 August 2011 Riccarton/Wigram Community Board minutes 23 August 2011
"Waitikiri subdivision", The Press, 7 November 2000, p 18 Waitikiri
Greenhaven Drive
Named after the Greenhaven Estate.
Burwood This was the property there of Lydia Elizabeth Partridge (1875-1962), daughter of Thomas Snelling (1827?-1888) and Eliza Scott Snelling (1836?-1918). [It was to have been called Snelling Avenue but the deposit plan for the subdivision had been signed, sealed and delivered with the wrong street name on it.] First appears in street directories in 1996.
Snelling Place “Name filed in error”, The Press, 19 February 1965, p 14
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: S588
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Greenwich Street
Named after Greenwich Park in London, a World Heritage site and the oldest of the Royal Parks.
Halswell 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.
Named in 2012.
Knights Stream Park
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 3 April 2012
Riccarton/Wigram Community Board minutes 3 April 2012
Knights Stream Park
Greenmeadow Gardens
Belfast Planned to be named Lowestaff Place in 1997 but the developer wished for a name change before it was shown on a Land Transfer Plan.
Re-named Greenmeadow Gardens in 1999.
Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 31 March 1999
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Greenock Street
Named after Greenock, a town in western Scotland.
Redwood Named by the wife of the developer, a Mr Taylor, after a visit to Greenock in Scotland. The Taylors were associated with the Rose Society. [Another suggestion was Clevedon Street but this was rejected as it was considered too similar to Cleveland Street.]
Named in 1970.
“New name proposed”, The Papanui Herald, 22 September 1970, p 1 Information supplied in 2008 by Elsie Grueber, former lady editor of The Papanui Herald, in an interview with Margaret Harper.
Greers Road From Harewood Road to Sawyers Arms Road was formerly named Bishop’s Road.
Named after David Greer (1842-1918). Bishop’s Road was named after the Bishop family: James Bishop (1826-1910) and his wife, Rebecca (1825?-1913). Their children were: James (b. 1848), Robert (1851-1940),
Burnside, Ilam, Bishopdale, Bryndwr
The Greer family farmed an area of about 99 acres from what became Wairakei Road through to Condell Avenue and south to Jennifer Street. David Greer built his first homestead at what later became 302 Greers Road in 1878. They named their property Tyrone Farm after Tyrone County, their home in Northern Ireland. This house burnt down after two years and another built.
Bishopdale “Marriages”, Star, 30 April 1896, p 2
“News of the day”, The Press, 4 September 1908, p 5
Bishop’s of Bishopdale
Reminiscences of pioneer farming at Papanui and Pleasant Point 1855-1916?
“Diamond
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: B455, B456, B457, G419
"Advertisements", The Press, 28 February 1918, p 9 Early fruitgrowing in Canterbury, New Zealand, pp 16-21
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William (1854-1884), Frederick Alfred (1851-1911) and Rebecca Sarah (1860?-1951).
Greers Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1908.
First appears in street directories in 1912 running from Harewood Road to Wairarapa Road (later Wairakei Road). Extended to Burnside Road (later Memorial Avenue) in 1928. Bishop’s Road is mentioned in the Star in 1907 in a report of James and Rebecca Bishop’s diamond wedding celebrations. They were then living in Bishop’s Road which was incorporated into Greers Road by the Waimairi County Council in June 1948. There had been confusion with Bishop Street in St Albans. Greers Road was then continued through to Sawyers Arms Road. G R Macdonald says the re-naming was "to the justifiable indignation of the whole
Wedding”, Star, 23 November 1907, p 5 "Papanui news", The Press, 20 August 1932, p 11
“Street names changed”, The Press, 25 June 1948, p 9 Waimairi County Council minute book, January 1947-February 1949, p 540 held at Christchurch City Council archives.
"Bishopdale", The Press, 27 July 1966, p 14 “Old homestead auctioned” The Papanui Herald, 27 March 1984, p 1 “Old landmark revels in former glory”, The Press, 13
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Bishop family". Descendants of "the late James, William and Robert Bishop" had protested against the change as early as 1932. Miss R. Bishop wrote to the Waimairi County Council also objecting to the change. To preserve the family association it was decided to call the suburb, Bishopdale.
July 1994, p 47
Gregan Crescent
Named after the Gregan family.
Burnside Bernard Daniel Gregan (1910-1976) farmed at 341 Wairakei Road. The farm extended from Grahams Road to the shingle pits at Lake Bryndwr. The land was bought by the Government for state housing in 1956.
First appears in street directories in 1960.
Information supplied in 2007 by Bernice Gregan in an interview with Margaret Harper.
“More land for houses”, The Press, 7 February 1956, p 14
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Gregory Avenue
Gregory Road Named after William Henry Gregory (1877?-1959).
Islington Gregory was an electrical engineer with the electricity department.
Formed near the Islington substation.
Gregory Road first appears in street directories in 1977. Becomes Gregory Avenue in 1983.
Information supplied in 2006 by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council.
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Grenville Street
John Street and Beresford Street
Formerly John Street. Named after William John Wilson (1858?-1895).
Re-named Beresford Street and later re-named Grenville Street.
Waltham William John Wilson was the eldest son of William Barbour Wilson (1819-1897), nurseryman, businessman and local politician and his wife, Elizabeth. He was a gentleman of Sydenham. He died in his 38th year at his father’s house, the Grove.
In a subdivision of Rural Section 48, land owned by William Wilson (1819-1897). John Street appears on an 1874/75 Deposit Plan. First appears in street directories in 1892. Re-named Beresford Street in 1909. Re-named Grenville Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named.
Barbour Street, Charles Street, Grafton Street, Henry Street, Laurence Street, Short Street and Williams Street.
Plan of suburban property (Rural Section 48) situated on the Ferry Road near the East Town Belt belonging to William Wilson Esq., Deposit Plan 27 1874/75. Map held by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council. [The land, 200 acres in Ferry Road, had originally been purchased by G. Draper and his son-in law, James Edward FitzGerald (1818?-1896).] “Rural sections chosen”, Lyttelton Times, 15 March 1851, p 7
The descendants of John and Mary Gebbie, p 15
View the biography of William Barbour Wilson in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: W620 “Deaths”, Star, 6 September 1895, p 2
“Deaths”, The Press, 30 September 1895, p 3
“Street names”, The Press, 6 October 1909, p 6 “New names for streets”, The Press, 2 June 1948, p 3
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“Street naming”, The Press, 3 November 1909, p 3
"Street names changed: City council approves final list", The Press, 24 August 1948, p 3
“New street names”, The Press, 24 July 1948, p 2
“William Wilson – landowner and early nurseryman”, The Press, 20 May 1978, p 13
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Gresford Street
Named after the Gresford Estate.
Edgeware Samuel Bealey (1821-1909) was Canterbury’s third superintendent 1863-1866. He and his brother John owned the Gresford Estate and named their home Gresford. This is first mentioned in the Star in 1869.
The land was subdivided and Gresford Street formed in 1901. First appears in street directories in 1903.
Bealey Avenue and Champion Street.
“Advertisements”, Star, 20 August 1869, p 1
“Land sale: the Gresford Estate”, Star, 17 January 1901, p 3
“Advertisements”, Star, 9 August 1902, p 6 St Albans : from swamp to suburbs : an informal history, pp 15 & 154 Bealey Avenue, Christchurch’s North Town Belt, p 8
Samuel Bealey
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: B252
“Obituary”, Star, 26 May 1909, p 2
“Obituary, Mr Samuel Bealey”, The Press, 26 May 1909, p 7
Gresham Terrace
New Brighton First appears in street directories in 1964.
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Greta Place Named after the Greta stream which is some miles north of Motunau.
Hoon Hay In a subdivision where the streets are named after rivers or properties in North Canterbury. Named in 1959.
First appears in street directories in 1966.
Ferniehurst Street, Kaiwara Street, Molesworth Place, Palmside Street and Tekoa Place.
“New city street names”, The Press, 30 June 1959, p 5
“Country’s influence”, The Press, 11 November 1964, p 30
Greystoke Lane
Named after Greystoke Castle in the village of Greystoke in the county of Cumbria in Northern England.
Avonhead Named in 1987 by Philip Carter, managing director of the Carter Group which developed the Hyde Park subdivision. Many of the streets there are named after stately homes of England or English placenames.
Hyde Park "New release of sections in Hyde Park subdivision", The Press, 20 October 1987, p 40
Greywacke Road
Named after greywacke, a grey earthy rock.
Harewood First appears in street directories in 1976. The contracting company of Ashby Brothers was based there at the time. It has been suggested that the road was previously named Ashbys Road but this does not appear in street directories.
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Griffiths Avenue
Ferriman Avenue
Formerly Ferriman Avenue. Named after William Zaccheus Duckett Ferrriman (1889?-1956). Re-named Griffiths Avenue.
Linwood Ferriman, an Ashburton farmer, was well-known for his work with returned servicemen in mid-Canterbury.
In the cottage home settlement at Sandilands. Named by the executive of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers' Association in 1934 with the name being approved by the Christchurch City Council in 1935.
First appears in street directories in 1947.
Re-named Griffiths Avenue on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named.
Nicholas Drive and Sandilands.
"General news", The Press, 30 October 1934, p 10
"Advertisements", The Press, 29 January 1935, p 11 "Street names changed: City council approves final list", The Press, 24 August 1948, p 3
“New names for streets”, The Press, 2 June 1948, p 3
“New street names”, The Press, 24 July 1948, p 2
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Grigg Place Named after John Grigg (1828?-1901).
Hillmorton Grigg was a runholder at Longbeach and Fellow of Christ's College.
One of the streets in the area formed on land belonging to Christ’s College. First appears in street directories in 1970.
Bean Street, Bidwell Place, Charles Upham Avenue, Harling Avenue, Neave Place, Warren Crescent and West-Watson Avenue.
“West-Watson Park”, The Press, 14 September 1957, p 4
View the biography of John Grigg in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G457
“Death of a pioneer farmer”, Star, 5 November 1901, p 2
Grimseys Road
Named after Joseph Grimsey (1842?-1920).
Redwood Grimsey was a farmer "on the Harewood Road at the Styx". Grimsey's Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1884. First appears in street directories in 1901.
"Avon", The Press, 21 January 1884, p 3 "Obituary", The Press, 31 July 1920, p 9
G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G461
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Grosvenor Street
Named after Grosvenor Square in London.
Redwood One of a group of streets named after London railway stations. The Main North Railway passes right by the area.
Named in 1955.
Aldgate Street, Camden Street, Ealing Street, Fenchurch Street, Lambeth Crescent, Paddington Street and Uxbridge Street.
“Naming of streets in new subdivisions”, The Press, 1 November 1958, p 10
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Grove Road Park Road Named after The Grove, the cob house built by William Barbour Wilson (1819-1897) in Brougham Street.
Addington Park Road first appears in street directories in 1878. Re-named Grove Road on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named.
Wilson was a nurseryman, businessman and local politician, being the first mayor of Christchurch. He built his house, the Grove, on 13 acres of land in Brougham Street in 1858. The house long remained a landmark in the district. The property was later bought by the Sisters of Nazareth who opened Nazareth House in 1909 on the site.
The evolution of a city, pp 19-20 Sydenham : the model borough of old Christchurch : an informal history, p 17
“Funeral”, Star, 10 November 1897, p 2
"Nazareth House, Christchurch", New Zealand Tablet, 21 January 1909, p 91
“Nazareth House”, The Press, 19 November 1910, p 12
"Street names changed: City council approves final list", The Press, 24 August 1948, p 3
View the biography of William Barbour Wilson in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
The descendants of John and Mary Gebbie, p 15 "Farm house to grove", Early Christchurch and Canterbury : newspaper clippings, ca. 1923-1950, Vol 1, p 32
“New names for streets”, The Press, 2 June 1948, p 3 “New street names”, The Press, 24 July 1948, p 2
Groynes Drive
Northwood First appears in street directories in 1995.
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Guernsey Street
Named after Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
Aranui Ronald Cyril de la Mare (1925-1975) was the managing director of the Bower Egg Farm Ltd, 467 Bower Avenue. He developed this subdivision off Rowses Road and Breezes Road and named the streets. All have associations with the Channel Islands as he had emigrated from Guernsey.
First appears in street directories in 1978.
Carteret Place, Casquet Lane, Channel Place, Cornet Lane, Pateley Lane and St Heliers Crescent. Also Rue De La Mare.
Information supplied in 2007 by Tim Baker in an interview with Margaret Harper.
“New Aranui subdivision”, The Press, 11 July 1972, p 14
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Guild Street Named after a position in the Anglican church. Guilds were originally associations of craftsmen in particular trades. The term was borrowed by the Anglican Church. A guild tends to be a group of lay persons (often women) within a parish which meet together for social purposes and to maintain the building and its finances.
Richmond In an area where the Anglican church owned land. First mentioned in The Press in 1910 when land is advertised for sale there. It was then being formed. First appears in street directories in 1914.
The Canterbury church property : articles
“Advertisements”, The Press, 7 May 1910, p 14 “Story of 700 acres of church property", The Press, 25 February 1947, p 6
Guildford Street
Named after Guildford, a town in Surrey, England.
Burnside First appears in street directories in 1960.
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Guinness Crescent
Named after Francis Hart Vicesimus 'Frank" Guinness (1819/1820-1891).
Ilam Guinness was a land sales auctioneer and commission agent. He traded under the company name of Guinness & Le Cren Ltd. This combined with two other businesses in 1919 to become Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd., stock and stations agents.
One of the streets developed in the 1960s by Maurice R. Carter Ltd., a company which built 138 houses in a block of land off Grahams Road bought from the PGG superannuation fund. First appears in street directories in 1968. [This was developed later than other streets in the PGG subdivision.]
Bullock Place, Burrows Place, Parkinson Place, Powell Crescent, Pulford Place and Seagrave Place. Also Raxworthy Street.
Information supplied in 2008 by Maurice Carter (d. 2011) in an interview with Margaret Harper.
Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd: the jubilee history 1919-1969 View the biography of Francis Hart Vicesimus Guinness in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
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Gunns Crescent
Named after the Scottish clan from which Sir John Cracroft Wilson (1808-1881) descended.
Cashmere Clan Gunn is a Scottish clan associated with north-eastern Scotland.
First appears in street directories in 1968.
Cashmere The Port Hills of Christchurch, p 238
View the biography of John Cracroft Wilson in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
Gunwelloe Lane
Burwood Streets were given names associated with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in this part of the Travis Country Estate. Named in 1997.
Excalibur Place, Mullion Lane, St Keverne Close, Mullion Lane and Sedgemoor Close. Also Glastonbury Drive and Quantock Place. Also Travis Country Estate.
Burwood/Pegasus Community Board agenda 24 November 1997
Guthries Road
Named after Robert Guthrie (1846-1915).
Belfast, Styx Guthrie was foreman of the Provision and Produce Company and also a farmer of Belfast. Guthries Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1896 when land is advertised for sale there.
A short history of Belfast, 1949 Settling near the Styx River, p 137 “Advertisements”, The Press, 1 July 1896, p 8
“Mr R.Guthrie”, The Press, 4 December 1915, p 14 G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: G514a
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Guyon Street Named after Lake Guyon, a lake in the South Island high country.
The development company chose a theme of Canterbury lakes, rivers, lagoons and other water bodies for the street names in the subdivision.
In stage 1 of the Prestons Park subdivision on the south side of Prestons Road, opposite the Prestons subdivision.
Named in 2015.
Burwood/Pegasus Community Board agenda 21 September 2015 Burwood/Pegasus Community Board minutes 21 September 2015
Gwen Way Redwood Gwendoline Way was also proposed but Gwen Way was chosen as it is a small cul de sac. In the Redwood Springs subdivision. Named in 2003.
Shirley/Papanui Community Board agenda 5 March 2003
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Gwynfa Avenue
Hawthorn Avenue or HawthorneAvenue
Re-named Gwynfa Avenue. Named after a loop on the hills extension of the tram on Hackthorne Road. This was named because the name Gwynfa was on a gate immediately opposite this stop. There was some argument about the name of the loop, and this was regarded as rather amusing as Gwynfa is the Welsh for place of happiness.
Cashmere Hawthorn Avenue or Hawthorne Avenue first appears in street directories in 1924. It was a private street until officially re-named Gwynfa Avenue in 1933 by the Public Utilities Committee of the Heathcote County Council.
"News of the day", The Press, 10 February 1912, p 8
"Tramway Board", The Press, 27 February 1912, p 3 “Street names” The Press, 15 October 1932, p 14
"Street names", The Press, 31 January 1933, p 3