Maybe we have a name for our new green space by the Avon.
According to the Christchurch City Libraries street name index
During the 1920s Richard Bedward Owen (1873-1948), a tailor, envisaged the establishment of a boulevard … on both sides of the Avon River from the Carlton Mill bridge to the Estuary … Owen wanted wide lawns between road and river with tall trees planted near the banks.
Clearly a man ahead of his time.
27 October 2011 at 2:07 pm
This is a fantastic map!
“Axonometric perspective compiled from field surveys, aerial oblique photographs and stereo pairs.”
Coloured bird’s-eye pictorial map of the central city.
28 October 2011 at 11:14 am
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