Christchurch Street Names: S - Christchurch City Libraries

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Christchurch Street Names: S
Former
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Street. after Anne
Mackie, née
Strickland,
(1798?-1871),
wife of the Rev.
Charles Richard
Mackie (1798-
1882).
Re-named
Albert Street.
Named after
Prince Albert
(1819-1861),
consort to
Queen Victoria.
Re-named
Saxon Street.
his house, which he had brought
from England, Stricklands, and
the small lane that ran from his
house through to Cashel Street,
Strickland Street.
Strickland Street, Cashel Street
East, is first mentioned in The
Press in 1879 in a birth notice.
Strickland Street, in “Gatherer’s
Paddock”, is first mentioned in
the Star in 1880. First appears in
street directories in 1887.
Re-named Albert Street in 1891
when residents petitioned the
Linwood Town Board asking for
the name change.
In 1926 the council proposed
changing the names of 29 streets.
Albert Street was to have been
re-named Dobson Street.
[21 streets only were re-named
after protests from the public.]
Re-named Saxon Street on 1
September 1948 when 120 streets
were re-named.
Christchurch City Libraries Page 14 of 136
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“Local and General”,
Star, 9 April 1880, p 2
“Linwood Town
Board”, The Press, 26
November 1891, p 6
“An old land mark”,
The Press, 19 May
1905, p 3
“Avonside was first
consecrated church in
Canterbury”, The Sun,
20 February 1932, p 17
Avonside parish leaflet
February 1929, pp 3-4,
held at Anglican
Archives.
"Street names", The
Press, 11 May 1926, p
12
“Street names”, The
Press, 25 May 1926, p 7
"Street names", The
Press, 22 June 1926, p
10
Richard Mackie
(1798-1882)
G. R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies:
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"Street names", The
Press, 22 February
1926, p 10
"Street names", The
Press, 26 May
1926, p 11
“New names for
streets”, The Press,
2 June 1948, p 3