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Christchurch Street Names: T to V Current name Thurso Place Ticehurst Road Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Named after Thurso, a town on the north coast of Scotland. Named after Ticehurst in Sussex. New Brighton The developer may have had some connection with Thurso. It is five miles west of the town of Castletown. Thurso Place, Caithness Street and Castletown Place here are in close proximity. First appears in street directories in 1972. Lyttelton The Rev. Benjamin Woolley Dudley (1805-1892) served as a curate in this parish 1851-1859. First mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1851 when land for sale there is advertised. Declared by the Lyttelton Borough Council to be a public street from 1 August 1898. Christchurch City Libraries Page 38 of 95 8 August 2013 Caithness Street and Castletown Place. Dudley Road and Flimwell Lane. Information supplied in 2008 by Adrian Kirso in an interview with Margaret Harper. "Advertisements", The Lyttelton Times, 21 June 1851, p 4 “Advertisements”, The Press, 18 June 1898, p 10 The Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican Clergy in the Pacific G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: D466 “Obituary”, The Press, 30 August 1892, p 6
Christchurch Street Names: T to V Current name Ticehurst Terrace Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Named after Ticehurst in Sussex. Tika Street Tika means: straight. The Rev. Benjamin Woolley Dudley (1805-1892) served as a curate in this parish 1851-1859. Declared by the Lyttelton Borough Council to be a public street from 1 August 1898. Riccarton The area belonged to the Metropolitan Trotting Club and streets were named by Dudley Thomas Gainsford (1918-1977) of the Riccarton Borough Council. One of the street names chosen in 1940 for the State housing subdivision between Riccarton Road and Blenheim Road. The names were selected "as far as possible for their appropriateness". Christchurch City Libraries Page 39 of 95 8 August 2013 Dudley Road and Flimwell Lane. “Advertisements”, The Press, 18 June 1898, p 10 “New streets named”, The Press, 18 June 1940, p 6 The Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican Clergy in the Pacific G R Macdonald dictionary of Canterbury biographies: D466 “Obituary”, The Press, 30 August 1892, p 6
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