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Christchurch Street Names B Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information Bernard Street Bernice Crescent Christchurch City Libraries Updated July 2013 Station Street Formerly Station Street. Named because it led to the railway station in Addington. Re-named Bernard Street. Named after General Bernard Cyril Freyberg (1891-1963). Named after Aimee Bernice Delamain. Addington Station Street first appears in street directories in 1914. Re-named Bernard Street on 27 September 1948. Freyberg was a dentist, military leader and Governor- General of New Zealand 1946-1952. Yaldhurst Aimee Delamain is a granddaughter of Frederick William Delamain (1835- 1910). In the Delamain subdivision. Named in 2007. Page 68 of 166 See Source Further information “Changes in Riccarton street names” The Press, 28 September 1948, p 6 Delamain Riccarton/Wigram Community Board Transport and Roading Committee agenda 29 June 2007 View the biography of Bernard Cyril Freyberg in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Governor-General of Aotearoa, New Zealand Delamain cognac G. R. Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: D193 “Obituary”, The Press, 18 May 1910, p 8
Christchurch Street Names B Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information Berry Street Named after Alfred Berry (1838?-1889). Berwick Street Christchurch City Libraries Updated July 2013 Named after Berwick, a town in the county of Northumberland and the northernmost town in England, on the east coast at the mouth of the River Tweed. St Albans Berry was a coal and wood merchant. He bought land there in 1868. Berry Street is first mentioned in the Star in 1878 in an advertisement. First appears in street directories in 1887. St Albans Among a number of streets laid out in 1910 by private owners (the Church Property Trustees) and later dedicated to the council. Named in 1911. Page 69 of 166 See Source Further information The Berry’s of Berry Lane, p 15 “Advertisements”, Star, 10 October 1878, p 2 "City Council", The Press, 7 March 1911, p 8 "Christchurch", The Press, 2 May 1912, p 10 “Deaths”, Star, 22 November 1889, p 2 G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: B387
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