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Christchurch Street Names: T to V Current name Victoria Street Former name Part of Papanui Road and Whately Road. Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Formerly Whately Road. Named after Richard Whately (1787-1863). Re-named Victoria Street. Named after HM Queen Victoria (1819-1901). Central city Whately was Archbishop of Dublin and a member of the Canterbury Association from 1848. One of the original streets of Christchurch named in 1850. The names were taken from bishoprics listed in Burke's Peerage. First mentioned in The Lyttelton Times in 1852 when 1/4 acre sections are advertised for sale there. Re-named Victoria Street in 1877 after George Gould presented a petition signed by 61 residents asking that the name be changed. Whately Road is still being referred to in the Star in 1886. Christchurch City Libraries Page 88 of 95 8 August 2013 Reproduction of Edward Jollie's 1850 map of the proposed city. Department of Lands and Survey, Christchurch. Historical Maps "Advertisements", The Lyttelton Times, 7 August 1852, p 2 Early days of Canterbury, p 88 Christchurch City Council minute book, 22 October 1877 held at Christchurch City Council archives. Early Christchurch and Canterbury: newspaper clippings, ca. 1923-1950, Vol. 1, p 87 “City Council”, Star, 13 July 1886, p 4 The Canterbury Association: a study of its members’ connections, p 104
Christchurch Street Names: T to V Current name Vienna Street Former name Part of Thackeray Street. Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further information Named after William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). Re-named Vienna Street. Named after the city of Vienna because Thackeray supposedly had connections with this city. Waltham In 1981 the Brougham Street expressway extension cut several streets in two. One of these was Thackeray Street. The council decided to change the name of the southern part of the street to Makepeace Street after Thackeray's middle name but residents objected as they thought the name would be open to ridicule. Vienna Street first appears in street directories in 1987. Christchurch City Libraries Page 89 of 95 8 August 2013 Thackeray Street “Name change”, The Press, 27 November 1982, p 2
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