Christchurch Street Names: B - Christchurch City Libraries
Christchurch Street Names: B - Christchurch City Libraries
Christchurch Street Names: B - Christchurch City Libraries
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<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>Street</strong> <strong>Names</strong> B<br />
Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional<br />
information<br />
Boon <strong>Street</strong> Smollett’s<br />
Road and<br />
Smollett<br />
<strong>Street</strong>.<br />
<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Libraries</strong><br />
Updated July 2013<br />
Formerly Smollett’s<br />
Road and Smollett<br />
<strong>Street</strong>. May have<br />
been named after<br />
Tobias George<br />
Smollett (1721-<br />
1771).<br />
Re-named Boon<br />
<strong>Street</strong>. Probably<br />
named after C. E.<br />
Boon Ltd., bakers.<br />
Sydenham Smollett was an<br />
English author.<br />
Smollett’s Road first<br />
appears in street<br />
directories in 1887.<br />
Becomes Smollett<br />
<strong>Street</strong> in 1898.<br />
Re-named Boon<br />
<strong>Street</strong> on 1<br />
September 1948<br />
when 120 streets<br />
were re-named. The<br />
bakery business of<br />
Charles Edwin Boon<br />
(1878-1951),<br />
established in 1909,<br />
was at 221 Colombo<br />
<strong>Street</strong>.<br />
Page 101 of 166<br />
See Source Further<br />
information<br />
Boonwood Close “New names for<br />
streets”, The Press, 2<br />
June 1948, p 3<br />
“New street names”,<br />
The Press, 24 July<br />
1948, p 2<br />
“Obituary”, The<br />
Press, 12 November<br />
1951, p 8
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