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Christchurch Street Names B Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information Bargrove Close Barkers Lane Barker’s Road and Barkers Road Christchurch City Libraries Updated July 2013 Named after Joseph Bargrove. Named after Enoch Barker (1830-1892) and his brother, John George Barker (1840-1917). Halswell Bargrove was a labourer of Salisbury Street, Christchurch. In a later stage of the Longhurst subdivision where the streets are named after members of the Canterbury Militia of 1860. Named in 2012. New Brighton Enoch Barker trained as a gardener at Chatsworth, England, the Duke of Devonshire’s house. After emigrating to Canterbury he was appointed the first Government gardener in 1860 and planted many of the first trees in Hagley Park and the Botanic Gardens. He took up Rural Section 2298, 20 acres near the “River Page 22 of 166 See Source Further information Riccarton/Wigram Community Board agenda 16 October 2012 Province of Canterbury, New Zealand : list of sections purchased to April 30 1863, p 50 New Brighton: a regional history, 1852- 1970, p 174 “Road Boards”, Star, 14 August 1894, p 4 Woolston Burwood Expressway “A new road with noone living nearby”, The Press, 22 August 2000, Christchurch Militia List 1860 G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: B130
Christchurch Street Names B Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information Christchurch City Libraries Updated July 2013 Avon, East Christchurch Road” and in 1867 began market gardening in the Burwood/New Brighton area with his brother John. He was also a director of the New Brighton Tramway Company. He later drowned in the Avon River. Barker’s Road is first mentioned in the Star in 1894 in a report of a meeting of the Avon Road Board. Legally stopped on 21 August 1999, becoming Barkers Lane. Physically stopped once the new link between Travis Road and New Brighton Road was opened. Page 23 of 166 See Source Further information p. 9
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