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Christchurch Street Names B Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information Buccleugh Street Christchurch City Libraries Updated July 2013 Named after Walter Francis Montagu- Douglas-Scott, the 5th Duke of Buccleugh (1806- 1884). Phillipstown The duke was a member of the Canterbury Association from 1848. Tenders were called for shingling Buccleugh Street in 1879 at a meeting of the Heathcore Road Board reported in the Star. First appears in street directories in 1894. [In 1934 a local Scotsman suggested the spelling be corrected to Buccleuch. It was not altered because the Linwood Borough Council had originally approved the name with a “g”.] Page 144 of 166 See Source Further information “Heathcote”, Star, 6 October 1879, p 2 “The naming of streets”, The Press, 18 June 1934, p 12 The Canterbury Association: a study of its members’ connections, p 75
Christchurch Street Names B Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information Buchan Street Queen Street Named after John Buchan (1875-1940). Christchurch City Libraries Updated July 2013 Sydenham Queen Street first appears in street directories in 1887. Re-named Buchan Street on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named. Buchan was a novelist, publisher and politician. Continues the theme of “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. Page 145 of 166 See Source Further information Beckenham: a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, p 71 “New names for streets”, The Press, 2 June 1948, p 3 “New street names”, The Press, 24 July 1948, p 2 Report of the street naming committee, Sydenham Borough Council minute book 1879-1880, p 217, held at Christchurch City Council archives. “Borough Council”, Star, 20 January 1880, p 3
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