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Purdie Street Probably named A blind street off Thomas Purdie, a builder and
“City Council”, Star, 26 G. R Macdonald
after Thomas
Purdie (1827-
1877) or his son
Charles Purdie
(1853?-1936).
Stewart Street.
Just south of St
Asaph Street so
very near to the
St Andrews
corner.
carpenter, lived at 6 St Asaph
Street. His business was at the
corner of Tuam Street and
Antigua Street opposite St
Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
near the Christchurch Hospital.
Purdie and others bought
properties in what became Purdie
June 1883, p 4
"Magisterial", Star, 9
June 1885, p 3
"Magisterial", The
Press, 10 June 1885, p 3
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: P602
Street in 1875. The street was
shown on the map from which
“What is a private
they had bought and it was then
street?”, Star, 15 July
merely pegged out and defined
by fences. It was named Purdie
Street shortly after. Charles
Purdie, also a builder, lived on
the corner of St Asaph Street and
Lincoln Road (now Hagley
Avenue).
First mentioned in the Star in
1883 when the "residents and
owners" of Purdie Street asked
the city council for it to be
treated as an "occupied" street as
the residents could not afford to
pay the cost of constructing it.
First appears in street directories
in 1892. Incorporated into the
grounds of Hagley Community
College about 1974.
1885, p 3
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