Christchurch Street Names: B - Christchurch City Libraries

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Christchurch Street Names B Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information Christchurch City Libraries Updated July 2013 Named after William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898). Re-named Balfour Terrace. Named after Arthur Balfour, the 1st Earl of Balfour (1848-1930). The Press in 1879. A petition for it to be taken over as a public street was presented to the council in 1881. Gladstone Terrace is first mentioned in the Star in an advertisement in 1883 and first appears in street directories in 1887. The council made it a public street on 10 October 1892. Gladstone was a British Prime Minister and also brother-in-law to Lord Lyttelton. Re-named Balfour Terrace in 1909. Balfour was British Prime Minister 1902- 1905. Page 4 of 166 See Source Further information “City Council”, The Press, 11 October 1881, p 3 "Business Announcements", Star, 10 January 1883, p 2 "City Council", Star, 5 April 1892, p 1 “Special meeting”, Star, 11 October 1892, p 1 “Street naming”, The Press, 3 November 1909, p 3
Christchurch Street Names B Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information Balgay Street Hauroko Street Christchurch City Libraries Updated July 2013 Named after Balgay Street in Dundee, Scotland. Upper Riccarton Hauroko Street first appears in street directories in 1950. Re-named Balgay Street in 1958. Re-named by Joseph Irvine Colligan (1910-1965), a hairdresser and chairman of the Waimairi County Council 1960-1965. His brother had lived in Balgay Street in Dundee. Page 5 of 166 See Source Further information Information supplied in 2004 by Aileen Colligan (d. 2010) in an interview with Margaret Harper. “Obituary, Mr J. L. Colligan was Waimairi chairman”, The Press, 3 July 1965, p 16
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