Dallington Streets

Achilles Street

Formerly known as Ullrich Avenue, named after Frederick Ullrich.
Ann Street was incorporated into Achilles Street.

Achillies Street was renamed in 1940 by the Waimairi County Council after the RNZN ship Achilles to commemorate the part it played in the 1939 Battle of the River Plate.

Housing as we currently know it in Achillies Street was built around 1956
“15 magnificent sections” in a new Shirley subdivision in Achilles Street were advertised for sale in The Press in April 1956.

Ava Place

Named after Ava Lavinia Gardner (1922-2001).    
Ava Gardner was an Academy Award- nominated American screen actress.

One of two streets named by Harry Morgan, a draughtsman with the Ministry of Works.
First appears in street directories in 1957.

Bampton Street

Named after the Bampton family.

In the 1902 Avon electoral roll, Hubert Bampton (1842-1929), his wife Sarah and their sons, William (1877-1956), Robert (1878-1932) and Walter (1880-1949), all gardeners, were residents of nearby Cooper’s Road.

Bampton's Road is first mentioned in the Star in a report of a meeting of the Avon Road Board held in 1899. It was not then a public road.
First appears in street directories in 1913 running off Mundy’s Road. Becomes Bampton Road in 1924 and Bampton Street in 1950.

Banks Avenue

Formerly Dudley Creek Road
Named after Leonard Banks (1870-1951) and Charles Churchill Banks (1862-1942).

Dudley's Creek Road is first mentioned in the Star in 1873 when a councillor objected to its being called "the main drain creek road" instead of being called Dudley's Creek Road by which it had always before been.

Barclay Place

Name approved on 29 March 1956.
First appears in street directories in 1960.

Belfield Street

Probably named after Belfield in Dublin, Ireland.

Bideford Place

Named in 1960
Probably named after Bideford, a village in North Devon.

Birchfield Avenue

Probably named after Henry Albert Birchfield (1853?- 1935).
Birchfield, a labourer, was living at 52 Coopers Road in 1918.
Birchfield Avenue first appears in street directories in 1919.

The section of Queensbury Street in an easterly direction to the right-angle bend was renamed Birchfield Avenue on 27 June 1955.
The section leading north to Cresswell Avenue became part of Gayhurst Road.

Bramwell Street

The street was developed in 1956, the year Banks Avenue School was opened.

Cheam Street

Formerly Cheam Place
Named after Cheam, a village close to Sutton in the London Borough of Sutton.
Named on 15 March 1961.

Cheam Place first appears in street directories in 1964. Becomes Cheam Street in 1984.

Claydon Place

Named in 1967

Coopers Road

Named after brothers William Cooper (1845-1917) and Thomas Cooper.
The men, both dairymen, are listed in street directories living on Coopers Road in 1906, the year it first appears in street directories.

First mentioned in the Star in 1899 in advertisement.

Cresswell Avenue

First appears in street directories in 1915.

Formerly Buxton’s Corner.
Cresswell Avenue was probably named after the Cresswell family.

Street directories say it was also known as Buxton's Corner, named after John Buxton (1805?-1887) and his wife, Susannah Buxton, née Shirley, (1806?- 1867).
George Nelson Cresswell (1879-1942), a letter carrier, and his wife, Emily, were living in nearby Mundys Road in 1914.
The Buxtons lived at Buxton’s Corner.

Dallington Terrace

A continuation of River Road, Dallington Terrace was named because it runs through the suburb of Dallington which, in turn, was named by Henry Joseph Campbell Jekyll (1844- 1913) after a family estate in Northamptonshire.

The section of River Road from Dallington bridge to McBratneys Road was re-named Dallington Terrace by the Waimairi County Council in 1926.

First appears in street directories in 1928.

Dallington currently has some of the most spectacular vistas in the city.  (Click image for a significant enlargement - 21MB)

Ferner Street

Formerly known as Smith’s Road/Smith Street and Queensbury Street/Queen Street.

Also Madge Street.

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.

Fleete Street

Named after Percy Lonsdale Fleete (1884-1968).

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.

Gayhurst Road

Named after Gayhurst, the home of Henry Joseph Campbell Jekyll (1844- 1913) at 50 River Road.

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.

Glenarm Terrace

Formerly 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.

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.

Halberg Place

Named after Murray Gordon Halberg (1933-).

Halberg was a distance runner and Olympic champion.

In a group of streets named after athletes.

Named in 1955.

Katie Lane

Kim Place

Named after Kim Novak (1933-).

Kim Novak was one of America's most popular movie stars in the late 1950s.

One of two streets named by Harry Morgan, a draughtsman with the Ministry of Works.

First appears in street directories in 1957.

Information supplied in 2005 by Bob Pritchard, subdivisions officer, Christchurch City Council.

Kingsford Street

Kingloch Street and King Street were amalgamated to form Kingsford Street.

Named after Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897-1935).

In 1895 the Avon Road Board was asked to metal a further portion of King Street, Windsor. King Street first appears in street directories in 1907, running from New Brighton Road to Mundys Road.

Kingloch Street first appears in street directories in 1913, running from New Brighton Road to Alice Street.

The two streets were amalgamated and re- named Kingsford Street by the Waimairi County Council on 8 February 1933 when the problem of duplicate names was addressed with a number of streets.

Landy Street

Named after John Landy (1930-).
Landy was an Australian athlete and the second man to break the four-minute mile.

In a group of streets named after athletes.
Named in 1955.

Locksley Avenue

Named after Locksleys, the home there of Joseph Palmer (1826-1910).

In December 1918, the Burwood Burgesses’ Association decided to ask the Waimairi County Council to re- name River Road, Locksley Avenue “as there are several River roads round Christchurch”.

Lovelock Street

Named after Jack Lovelock (1910- 1949).
Lovelock was a New Zealand runner who once held the world mile record and competed in the Olympics in Berlin in 1936. While at school he was head prefect at Timaru Boys’ High School.

In a group of streets named after athletes.
Named in 1960.

McBratneys Road

Named after the McBratney family.

John McBratney (1832- 1916) lived at Dudley Creek, Dallington. Henry McBratney (1861?-1943), and his wife, Marian, are listed in street directories living in Stapletons Road in 1904.

McBratney's Road is first mentioned in the Lyttelton Times in 1862.

First appears in street directories in 1903.

Moyna Place

Named after Moyna Coulter, née Foster, (1937- ).

Moyna Coulter’s father, John Foster, was a draughtsman at the Lands & Survey Department in 1947, the year the street name was approved. He was later Town Planning officer at Christchurch City Council.

First appears in street directories in 1957.

Mundys Road

Named after James Mundy (1836?-1918).
Mundy, a carpenter, lived on Stapletons Road in the early 20th century.

Mundy’s Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1912.  First appears in street directories in 1914.

Netherby Lane

First appears in street directories in 1995.

New Brighton Road

Porritt Place

Named after Arthur Espie Porritt (1900- 1994).
orritt was an athlete and an Olympic Games administrator in 1960.
In a group of streets named after athletes.

Named in 1960.

Rowe Place

Named after James Rowe (1845-1923).
Rowe emigrated to Canterbury in 1874 and opened a shop in Madras Street north. Rowe, a grocer, had a large-scale pig farm on his property, Windsor Park, in what is now Ajax Street, Shirley.

Stiles Place

Named after Cyril Alec (Bob) Stiles (1904-1985).
Stiles was one of New Zealand’s first Olympic rowing medallists.

Named in 1966.  
First appears in street directories in 1970.

Strathfield Avenue

Named on 15 March 1961.
First appears in street directories in 1968.

Snell Place

Named after Sir Peter Snell (1938- ).

Named in 1960, Snell Place is in a group of streets named after athletes.

Sutton Place

Named after Sutton’s, the English seed firm.

Developed in 1999 on land off Cheam Street that had previously been a market garden.

Tilbury Place

Westcott Street

Appears on a 1954 map.

First appears in street directories in 1957.

Wrey Jury Lane

Named after Wrey Hamilton Jury (1917-2003).
Jury was a former long- standing owner and local identity. He was enrolled at the Sumner School for Deaf Children in 1926.

Developed in 2005 by Horncastle Homes.