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Current name Sandwich Road Sandy Avenue Christchurch Street Names: S Former name Sandwick Road Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Named after Sandwich in Kent. Named after a very high sand ridge that had to be removed before development could proceed. Beckenham Stephen Temple Fisher (1818- 1897) and his brother, James Temple Fisher (1828-1905) emigrated from Sandwich. The brothers bought a large area of land in the Beckenham area. Sandwick Road first appears in street directories in 1903. Sandwich Road first appears in The Press in 1904. "Sandwick Road, Beckenham" appears in an advertisement in the Star in 1906. Re-named Sandwich Road in 1914. This may have been a spelling correction. New Brighton Named by Mary Catherine Ryan (1892-1978), wife of William Nicholas Ryan (1885-1950), a contractor. First appears in street directories in 1964. Christchurch City Libraries Page 8 of 136 8 August 2013 Beckenham Street and Fisher Avenue. 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 “Advertisements”, The Press, 27 July 1904, p 12 “Death of an old settler”, Feilding Star, 4 January 1905, p 2 Beckenham: a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, p 16 "Advertisements", Star, 19 May 1906, p 6 Information supplied in 2008 by the Ryans' son, Jack Ryan, in a letter to Margaret Harper. 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
Current name Sandyford Street Christchurch Street Names: S Former name Second Street Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Formerly Second Street. The streets south of, and parallel to, Moorhouse Avenue were named in numerical order. The section of Second Street west of Colombo Street was re-named Sandyford Street. Probably named because of the big inland sandhill in Sydenham. The section east of Colombo Street was re-named Byron Street. Sydenham Second Street first appears in The Press in 1874 when land for sale there is advertised. On a 1879 map it is shown running from Harper Street (later Orbell Street) to Gasworks Road (later Waltham Road). Does not appear in street directories. Sandyford Street first appears in The Press in 1874. Re-named officially on 2nd August 1880, when the street naming committee of the Sydenham Borough Council recommended that “Second, Third and Fourth streets be respectively named Sandyford, Battersea and Gladstone streets, these being the names under which they are dedicated to the public, and which were chosen by the first residents in those streets”. Christchurch City Libraries Page 9 of 136 8 August 2013 Byron Street “Advertisements”, The Press, 26 September 1874, p 3 Plan of Christchurch and suburbs, 1879 Sydenham : the model borough of old Christchurch : an informal history, p 82 Sydenham Borough Council minute book 1879-1880, pp 217 & 315, held at Christchurch City Council archives. “Advertisements”, The Press, 19 December 1874, p 4 “Borough Councils", Star, 3 August 1880, p 4
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