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 />
Blighs Road Bligh’s Road Named after John<br />
Bligh (1838-1896).<br />
<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Libraries</strong><br />
Updated July 2013<br />
From Strickland<br />
<strong>Street</strong> to Selwyn<br />
<strong>Street</strong> was created on<br />
Deposit Plan 3577 in<br />
October 1912.<br />
From Selwyn <strong>Street</strong><br />
to the bend was<br />
created on Deposit<br />
Plan 3974 also in<br />
October 1912.<br />
From the bend to<br />
Simeon <strong>Street</strong> was<br />
created on Deposit<br />
Plan 4061 in<br />
September 1913.<br />
Strowan Bligh established a<br />
restaurant and<br />
boarding house in<br />
Victoria <strong>Street</strong>. In<br />
1878 he and his wife<br />
bought a 5 acre block<br />
where Blighs Road<br />
now runs and lived<br />
there. The garden he<br />
planted provided<br />
fresh vegetables for<br />
the city business.<br />
Page 94 of 166<br />
See Source Further<br />
information<br />
Bounty <strong>Street</strong>,<br />
Christian <strong>Street</strong><br />
and Pitcairn<br />
Crescent and<br />
Resolution<br />
Place.<br />
New Brighton: a<br />
regional history, 1852-<br />
1970, p 38 & 39<br />
"Advertisements", Star,<br />
6 December 1882, p 1<br />
“Obituary”, Star, 26<br />
December 1896, p 6<br />
“News of the day”, The<br />
Press, 28 December<br />
1896, p 5<br />
G R Macdonald<br />
dictionary of<br />
Canterbury<br />
biographies: B523
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