Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Thames
Street
Former
name
Toon’s
Road
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further
information
Formerly Toons
Road. Named
after John Toon
(1835?-1918).
Re-named
Thames Street.
Named after the
Thames River
which passes
through London.
The Brae Named after The
Brae, the
Scottish home of
Robert Taylor
Smith (1891?-
1956).
The Gate Named after the
"Gate", a term
given to the door
at the entrance to
the Delamain
Cellars where
the cognac
matures.
Mairehau Tenders were called for the
forming and metalling of
Toon’s Road in 1870. Toon
won the contract.
Toon’s Road first appears in
street directories in 1892.
Toon, a farmer of St Albans,
is a resident in 1896.
Re-named Thames Road in
1916.
Mount
Pleasant
Smith was for many years a
motorman on the Sumner
tram route.
First appears in street
directories in 1940. Smith is
a resident.
Yaldhurst In the Delamain subdivision.
Named in 2007.
Christchurch City Libraries Page 25 of 95
8 August 2013
“Local and General”,
Star, 20 May 1870, p
2
“Re John Toon”, The
Press, 30 August
1892, p 6
“General news”, The
Press, 6 June 1916, p
6
“Naming of streets in
new subdivisions”,
The Press, 1
November 1958, p 10
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 99
Delamain Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
Transport and
Roading Committee
agenda 29 June 2007
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 18
November 1918, p
1
The Estuary of
Christchurch: a
history of the Avon-
Heathcote estuary,
its communities,
clubs, controversies
and contributions, p
131
Delamain cognac