Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Former
name
Tyne Street Smith
Street
Tyrone
Street
Howard
Street
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further
information
Formerly Smith
Street. Named
after Albert
George Smith
(1847?-1914).
Re-named Tyne
Street. Named
after a river in
north-eastern
England.
Formerly
Howard Street.
Named after a
street in the
business area of
Belfast, Ireland.
Re-named
Tyrone Street.
Named after
County
Tyrone,on the
west of Northern
Ireland.
Addington Smith was the Locomotive
Superintendent at Riccarton.
Some of the streets in the
vicinity of the Addington
Railway Workshops are
named after railway
employees.
Smith Street first appears in
street directories in 1900.
Re-named Tyne Street on 27
September 1948.
Belfast Formed when the area was
first subdivided in 1882.
Howard Street is first
mentioned in the Star in
1892 when a property there
is advertised for sale.
Re-named Tyrone Street in
June 1948 when 24 streets in
the Waimairi County were
re-named. Named to
continue the Irish theme of
street names in Belfast.
Christchurch City Libraries Page 73 of 95
8 August 2013
Anderson
Street and
Lowe Street.
Beyond the city: the
land and its people,
Riccarton, Waimairi,
Paparua, p 80
“Changes in
Riccarton street
names”, The Press,
28 September 1948, p
6
A short history of
Belfast, 1949
“Advertisements”,
Star, 25 April 1892, p
4
"Duplication of
names", The Press, 8
February 1936, p 13
"Street names
changed", The Press,
25 June 1948, p 9
"Street names
changed", The
Press, 25 June 1948,
p 6