Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Tuawera
Terrace
Tuckers
Road
Former
name
Victoria
Terrace
Tucker’s
Road
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further
information
Formerly
Victoria Terrace.
Named after HM
Queen Victoria
(1819-1901).
Re-named
Tuawera
Terrace.
Tuawera is the
name of the
Cave Rock at
Sumner.
Named after
George Tucker
(1829?-1880).
Clifton Victoria Terrace first appears
in street directories in 1940.
Re-named Tuawera Terrace
on 1 September 1948 when
120 streets were re-named.
Casebrook,
Redwood.
Tucker was a farmer of
North Road (later Main
North Road).
Tucker’s Road is first
mentioned in the Star in
1871 in a report of a meeting
of the Avon Road Board. It
was decided then to develop
Tucker’s Road from an
accommodation road i.e. a
route for stock.
Tuckers Road first appears in
street directories in 1900.
Christchurch City Libraries Page 63 of 95
8 August 2013
“New street names”,
The Press, 1 June
1948, p 3
“Avon Road Board”,
Star, 20 April 1871, p
4
“New names for
streets”, The Press,
2 June 1948, p 3
G. R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: T422
"Deaths", The
Press, 6 October
1880, p 2