Hania Street

Lloyd Street was renamed Hania Street on 19 January 1991. Prior to being named Hania Street, this street was composed of two streets, Lloyd Street and Nelson Street. Lloyd Street dates to 1858, when Thomas Lloyd Esq. of Bombay purchased for £145 Town Acres 291 - 292 from Alfred de Bathe Brandon. Lloyd's attorney was Waring Taylor, who in 1872 in the purchaser's interest subdivided the land and construed the street so named.

The street was chosen due to the location of the Greek Orthodox Church of Wellington, which serves the local Greek community. The church is in Mount Victoria, which was where the first Greek migrants to Wellington chose to make their home. Hania also named a street near Nea Hora beach, Wellington Street.  

On Hania Street sits a heritage building named the ‘Life Centre’ currently occupied by Te Whare Tipu, who provide people in need with mental health services. But it used to be known by another name - The Disabled Serviceman’s Training Centre. It was designed by prominent Art Deco and Moderne architect Edmund Anscombe and built in 1942 under the Rehabilitation Act 1941. It provided support to veterans of the World Wars with vocational training and medical treatment. Years later it was renamed the Rehabilitation League Workshop. This building has continued its humanitarian purpose throughout the years. It has housed an orthopaedic and limb-fitting room, a limb factory, a taxi operator training centre, a spray-painting workshop (which turned out to be very unpopular with locals due to the smell), a woodwork shop, an engineering workshop, and a doctor’s office to name a few.