Colombo Street is a main road of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.
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10 Facts About Colombo Street
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Between Tennyson Colombo Street and Strickland Colombo Street is a suburban shopping centre.
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Colombo Street passes St Mary's Primary School and the former Christchurch Women's Hospital complex before crossing Bealey Avenue and entering the residential suburb of St Albans.
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Notable shopping complexes on Colombo Street include Christchurch's main branch of Farmers, and South City Mall north of Moorhouse Avenue.
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Colombo Street was one of the city's original streets, being laid out at the time of the settlement of Canterbury Province in 1850 by surveyors Joseph Thomas and Edward Jollie.
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Colombo Street was the site of one of the worst disasters in New Zealand history, with a major fire that swept through the Ballantyne's Department Store in November 1947 killing 41 people.
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The ordinance allowed for Colombo Street to go straight through the middle of Cathedral Square at a legal width of 1.
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That way, the main entrance would face Colombo Street, resulting in praying towards the east in line with convention.
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Until 1965, Colombo Street did not stop at Cathedral Square but continued across it, running across the foot of the cathedral.
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Colombo Street contains or contained eleven structures that are registered as Category II historic places by Heritage New Zealand:.
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