{"id":910,"date":"2021-04-27T15:27:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/?p=910"},"modified":"2021-05-02T12:59:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T00:59:34","slug":"shirley-road-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/shirley-road-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley Road Central"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Why &#8216;Shirley Road Central&#8217;?<\/strong><br>10 Shirley Road is central to connecting communities in Shirley, Dallington, Richmond, Edgeware, St Albans &amp; Mairehau.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"1057\" class=\"wp-image-913\" style=\"width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-02-25_17-02-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-02-25_17-02-07.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-02-25_17-02-07-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-02-25_17-02-07-727x1024.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why the suburbs of Shirley, Dallington, Richmond, Edgeware, St Albans &amp; Mairehau?<\/strong><br>When you draw a 2km radius from 10 Shirley Road, these are the suburbs included in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"436\" height=\"399\" class=\"wp-image-912\" style=\"width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/10ShirleyRoad2kmRadius.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/10ShirleyRoad2kmRadius.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/10ShirleyRoad2kmRadius-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly after we had decided on &#8216;Shirley Road Central&#8217;, I found this map from the 1930s? on the Christchurch City Libraries website: <a href=\"https:\/\/christchurchcitylibraries.com\/Heritage\/Maps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/christchurchcitylibraries.com\/Heritage\/Maps\/<\/a><br>Originally Shirley Road started at Westminster Street (now Aylesford Street), before crossing over Hills Road to Marshland Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1010\" height=\"547\" class=\"wp-image-921\" style=\"width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1930MapShirleyRoad.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1930MapShirleyRoad.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1930MapShirleyRoad-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1930MapShirleyRoad-768x416.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/christchurchcitylibraries.com\/Heritage\/Maps\/174743.asp\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/christchurchcitylibraries.com\/Heritage\/Maps\/174743.asp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So over 100 years ago in 1915, the original building was built at 10 Shirley Road, as the Shirley Primary School.<br>This school was built at the centre of the then Shirley Road, connecting these communities even in the past.<br>With the building of a new centre at 10 Shirley Road, these communities will once again have a central place to call home, with opportunities to connected now &amp; in the future, with residents from the surrounding suburbs.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why &#8216;Shirley Road Central&#8217;?10 Shirley Road is central to connecting communities in Shirley, Dallington, Richmond, Edgeware, St Albans &amp; Mairehau. Why the suburbs of Shirley, Dallington, Richmond, Edgeware, St Albans &amp; Mairehau?When you draw a 2km radius from 10 Shirley Road, these are the suburbs included in this area. Interestingly after we had decided on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/shirley-road-central\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shirley Road Central&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}