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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

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