Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Trumble
Lane
Truscotts
Road
Tuam
Street
Former
name
Albert
Street
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further
information
Named after
Louisa Mary
Trumble (1874-
1955).
Named after
William
Truscott.
Named after the
Irish (Anglican)
bishopric of
Tuam.
Huntsbury Louisa Trumble nursed at the
Cashmere Sanatorium. She
was matron of the Military
Sanatorium 1920-1929 and
matron of the Tuberculosis
Institution 1929-1935.
Named in 1993.
Heathcote
Valley
Central city,
Phillipstown
Re-named in 1933. Truscott,
a farmer, is a resident.
Named by Captain Joseph
Thomas (b. 1803?) and
Edward Jollie (1825-1894).
One of the original streets of
Christchurch named in 1850.
The names were taken from
Christchurch City Libraries Page 61 of 95
8 August 2013
Broad Oaks Spreydon/Heathcote
community board
special meeting 2
December 1993
“Street names” The
Press, 15 October
1932, p 14
“Street names”, The
Christchurch Times,
1 February 1933, p 3
Sumner to
Ferrymead: a
Christchurch history,
p 209
Reproduction of
Edward Jollie's 1850
map of the proposed
city. Department of
Lands and Survey,
Christchurch.
Up the hill:
Cashmere
Sanatorium and
Coronation
Hospital, 1910 to
1991.
“Miss Trumble
honoured,” The
Press, 28 June 1935,
p 2
G. R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: J169 &
T144
“Obituary”, The