the name of “York” was given to the water frontage running from the Cave Rock to the Baths; the other names were those of Ely, Carlisle, Rochester, Bristol, Wells and Newcastle.
It is regrettable that greater discrimination was not used in the choice of names for the streets of the capital city. It is difficult, for instance, to understand how the main thoroughfare, that on which the Cathedral afterwards faced, came to be named Colombo Street, while such a name as “Chichester” was overlooked. Old Welsh “Llandaff,” and, if no other dioceses were available, the ancient deaneries of Westminster and Windsor might well have taken precedence over Barbadoes, Madras or Montreal. It must, however, be admitted that in Oxford and Cambridge Terraces, the opposing banks of the river, were well named, and Cranmer and Latimer Squares are quite in keeping with the ecclesiastical character of the settlement. The boundaries of the city, as then laid out, were Salisbury, St. Asaph, Barbadoes and Antigua Streets, on north, south, east and west, respectively, and beyond these came public reserves, which were afterwards sold, extending to the old Town Belts (now known as Bealey, Fitzgerald and Moorhouse Avenues). On the west, lay the main public reserve, our present Hagley Park and Domain Gardens, a splendid heritage and abiding memorial to the foresight of the founders of the city. Hagley Park was called after Lord Lyttelton’s seat near Strowbridge, and similarly on the Sumner plan, a “Killegar Park,” named after Mr. Godley’s birthplace, is shown.
No diagonal streets were provided on Mr. Jollie’s plan, and it was not until after the contract had been let for the construction of the Ferry Road that the necessity of a connecting thoroughfare with the North Road was recognised. Hence it is that Victoria and High Streets are non-conformist to the Episcopalian nomenclature.
