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Christchurch Street Names: T to V Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Tenby Place Avondale In a Paramount Homes subdivision. First appears in street directories in 1962. Christchurch City Libraries Page 18 of 95 8 August 2013
Christchurch Street Names: T to V Current name Tennyson Street Former name Pipers Lane and Pipers Road. Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Formerly Pipers Lane and Pipers Road, an early informal name. Named after George Piper (1843-1909), who was also known as Whistling Piper. Re-named Tennyson Street. Named after Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809- 1892). Sydenham George Piper and his brother had a brick kiln east of Colombo Street. Their father Thomas also worked there. The business was made bankrupt in January 1883. Pipers Lane first appears in the Star in 1877 in a report of a meeting of the Heathcote Road Board. George Piper was living in Tennyson Street at the time of his death in 1909. Re-named Tennyson Street. Tennyson was a poet. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. Tennyson Street first appears in street directories in 1894. Christchurch City Libraries Page 19 of 95 8 August 2013 Sydenham: past and present : a history of the Borough of Sydenham from its foundation in 1877 up to the time of its amalgamation with the city of Christchurch, p 9 “The Heathcote Road Board”, Star, 28 April 1877, p 2 Report of the street naming committee, Sydenham Borough Council minute book 1879-1880, pp 44 & 217, held at Christchurch City Council archives. “Borough Council”, Star, 20 January 1880, p 3 Sydenham: the model borough of Christchurch : an informal history, p 23 G. R. Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: P415 “Accidents and fatalities”, Star, 28 December 1909, p 1 “Deaths”, Star, 29 December 1909, p 3
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