Christchurch Street Names: S - Christchurch City Libraries
Christchurch Street Names: S - Christchurch City Libraries
Christchurch Street Names: S - Christchurch City Libraries
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Current<br />
name<br />
<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>Street</strong> <strong>Names</strong>: S<br />
Former<br />
name<br />
Seager Lane Named after<br />
Edward William<br />
Seager (1828-<br />
1922).<br />
Seagrave<br />
Place<br />
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further<br />
information<br />
Hillmorton Seager was a policeman, gaoler<br />
and asylum superintendent, being<br />
the first superintendent of<br />
Sunnyside Hospital.<br />
A right-of-way in the second<br />
stage of Linden Grove, a Ngai<br />
Tahu subdivision developed on<br />
the site of the former Sunnyside<br />
Hospital.<br />
Name approved in 2007.<br />
Ilam One of the streets developed in<br />
the 1960s by Maurice R. Carter<br />
Ltd who built 138 houses in a<br />
block of land off Grahams Road<br />
bought from the PGG<br />
superannuation fund.<br />
First appears in street directories<br />
in 1966.<br />
<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Libraries</strong> Page 22 of 136<br />
8 August 2013<br />
Linden Grove Spreydon/Heathcote<br />
Community Board<br />
Agenda 18 September<br />
2007<br />
Bullock Place,<br />
Burrows<br />
Place,<br />
Guinness<br />
Crescent,<br />
Parkinson<br />
Place, Powell<br />
Crescent and<br />
Pulford Place.<br />
Also<br />
Raxworthy<br />
<strong>Street</strong>.<br />
Information supplied in<br />
2008 by Maurice Carter<br />
(d. 2011) in an<br />
interview with Margaret<br />
Harper.<br />
View the biography<br />
of Edward William<br />
Seager in the<br />
Dictionary of New<br />
Zealand Biography.<br />
“Maurice Carter<br />
leaves behind<br />
immense legacy”,<br />
The Press, 10 May<br />
2011, p A3
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