Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tennyson
Street
Former
name
Pipers
Lane and
Pipers
Road.
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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