Christchurch Street Names: B - Christchurch City Libraries
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 />
Beechwood<br />
Drive<br />
Beeston Place Named after Thomas<br />
(Tom) Beeston.<br />
<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Libraries</strong><br />
Updated July 2013<br />
Northwood Developed by Belfast<br />
Developments Ltd<br />
and Styx<br />
Developments Ltd.<br />
The developers<br />
“chose names<br />
suitable for the length<br />
of the road rather<br />
than trying to<br />
establish a common<br />
theme throughout the<br />
subdivision”.<br />
Named in 2000.<br />
Redwood Beeston was a sonin-law<br />
of Harold<br />
Parnwell Smith, a<br />
long time city<br />
councillor. He was<br />
killed in a<br />
mountaineering<br />
accident in the Mt<br />
Cook National Park.<br />
First appears in street<br />
directories in 1972.<br />
Page 50 of 166<br />
See Source Further<br />
information<br />
H P Smith<br />
Courts<br />
Shirley/Papanui<br />
Community Board<br />
agenda 29 March 2000<br />
Report of the<br />
Shirley/Papanui<br />
Community Board to<br />
the Council 19 April<br />
2000<br />
Information supplied in<br />
2012 by Wayne Hann<br />
in an interview with<br />
Margaret Harper.
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