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 />
Barrowclough<br />
Road<br />
<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Libraries</strong><br />
Updated July 2013<br />
Named after Harold<br />
Eric Barrowclough<br />
(1894-1972).<br />
Hoon Hay Barrowclough was a<br />
military leader,<br />
lawyer and chief<br />
justice to the Bench.<br />
In 1968 the street<br />
names sub-committee<br />
of the council felt<br />
that as Halswell was<br />
named after a<br />
prominent English<br />
Queen's Counsel it<br />
would be appropriate<br />
to record the names<br />
of judges in street<br />
names there. Many of<br />
them had been QCs<br />
or KCs before<br />
appointment to the<br />
Bench.<br />
Page 32 of 166<br />
See Source Further<br />
information<br />
Alpers Place,<br />
Callan Place,<br />
Dalglish Place,<br />
Fair Place,<br />
Haslam<br />
Crescent,<br />
Herdman Road,<br />
Leicester<br />
Crescent,<br />
McCarthy <strong>Street</strong>,<br />
Myers Place,<br />
Northcroft Road,<br />
O'Leary <strong>Street</strong>,<br />
Ostler Place,<br />
Salmond Road<br />
and Stanton<br />
Crescent.<br />
“Judges’ names”, The<br />
Press, 17 September<br />
1968, p 1<br />
View the biography<br />
of Harold Eric<br />
Barrowclough in the<br />
Dictionary of New<br />
Zealand Biography.<br />
"Hoon Hay<br />
subdivision provides<br />
570 sections", The<br />
Press, 30 September<br />
1964, p 1