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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 15 Mystery revealed behind Walnut Ave Papanui Heritage group chairman Murray Williams tries to get to the bottom of how Walnut Ave got its name FOR THOSE interested in the background stories of Christchurch streets, a good starting point is the excellent on-line site created by Christchurch City Libraries. This resource traces the origin of city streets, the stories behind their names and the reasons for any subsequent name changes. However, it is inevitable in a resource of this complexity that there will be occasional errors. For example, looking up ‘Walnut Ave’ in the CCL site we read that this south Papanui street came into existence in 1926 as the new name for St Andrew’s Tce, a change prompted because of the confusion with nearby St Andrew’s Square. But under ‘Hartley Ave’ we find a statement that St Andrew’s Tce was renamed Hartley Ave in 1938. The primary evidence cited certainly verifies the latter claim. The answer to the confusion lies in an ambiguous newspaper article in The Press on June 22, 1926, which obviously misled the compiler of the CCL resource. MYSTERY: Murray Wiliams investigates how Walnut Ave got its name. The article, titled ‘Alterations Approved’, listed a number of streets subject to possible name changes, one of which was ‘St Andrews Tce to be renamed Walnut Ave.’ However, the article also noted that in a petition, 11 ratepayers and property-holders objected on the grounds that the suggested new name was not acceptable to them. The introduction to the article had explained that any projected changes that generated objections were not proceeded with, in other words the name change did not go ahead in 1926. So when and where was Walnut Ave established? The Post Office Directory of 1939 has no record of its existence. Although by 1947, Stone’s Directory mentions it as running off Hawthorne Ave and having 12 developed lots, nine of which were houses on the eastern side of the street. An analysis of these houses reveals that the majority are examples of designs common in the 1940s, although some have since been modified. Based on this evidence, the best answer appears to be that the street was developed sometime in the mid-1940s, an example of the post-World War 2 building boom. Anecdotally, Walnut Ave was named after a large walnut tree somewhere in this area of south Papanui, but there is another interesting point about this street’s name. The term ‘avenue’ usually indicates some form of tree planting adjacent to the street. Whether such a feature ever existed in Walnut Ave is not clear but there is no current evidence that it ever did. Perhaps a reader with a long memory could enlighten us by emailing ashleigh.monk@ starmedia.kiwi. 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