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 />
Shakespeare<br />
Road<br />
Shalamar<br />
Drive<br />
Former<br />
name<br />
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further<br />
information<br />
Named after<br />
William<br />
Shakespeare<br />
(1564-1616).<br />
Named after the<br />
Shalimar<br />
Gardens in<br />
Lohore,<br />
Pakistan.<br />
[The misspelling<br />
of Shalimar<br />
(Shalamar)<br />
happened when<br />
the subdivision<br />
was registered.]<br />
Waltham Shakespeare was a playwright.<br />
One of the “poets and writers”<br />
streets of Sydenham, Addington<br />
and Waltham named by a<br />
committee of the Sydenham<br />
Borough Council on 19 January<br />
1880.<br />
First appears in street directories<br />
in 1887.<br />
Cashmere Sir John Cracroft Wilson (1808-<br />
1881), a judge, farmer and<br />
politician, lived in the Old Stone<br />
House and employed a number of<br />
Indians who lived here in small<br />
structures by the roadside. First<br />
appears in street directories in<br />
1979.<br />
<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Libraries</strong> Page 38 of 136<br />
8 August 2013<br />
Bengal Drive,<br />
Chittagong<br />
Lane,<br />
Darjeeling<br />
Place, Delhi<br />
Place, Indira<br />
Lane,<br />
Lucknow<br />
Place, Nabob<br />
Lane, Nehru<br />
Place, Sasaram<br />
Lane and<br />
Shalamar<br />
Drive. Also<br />
Cashmere.<br />
Report of the street<br />
naming committee,<br />
Sydenham Borough<br />
Council minute book<br />
1879-1880, p 217, held<br />
at <strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
Council archives.<br />
“Borough Council”,<br />
Star, 20 January 1880, p<br />
3<br />
The Port Hills of<br />
<strong>Christchurch</strong>, p 241<br />
Old Stone House 1870-<br />
1900 and the Cracroft<br />
Community Centre<br />
1972-1900, p 11<br />
View the biography<br />
of John Cracroft<br />
Wilson in the<br />
Dictionary of New<br />
Zealand Biography.<br />
G. R Macdonald<br />
dictionary of<br />
Canterbury<br />
biographies: W599<br />
“Indians of<br />
Cashmere”, The<br />
Press, 18 July 2009,<br />
p D9
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