Prisk Place – Named after the Prisk family, who ran a stone quarry in Hillsborough where this street was developed. Samuel Prisk (1839-1913) was a bricklayer of Hillsborough. First appears in street directories in 1964.
A little bit of information from the library website. Mostly brick or summerhill stone houses and I only managed one photo here. The nice thing about older cul de sac type of streets is that there is a footpath on both sides of the street. The street goes towards Hillsborough Park but there is no entrance to the park from this street. Nothing in Gordon Ogilvie’s book.
I have found out that Samuel Prisk had more that one quarry and he had one at Ferrymead as well. There were a lot of quarries in the Hillsborough area. Samuel’s Hillsborough quarry was probably one of the quarries at Rocky Point. The business was called Samuel Prisk and sons but earlier there was a business called Prisk, Savage and Co and in 1900 a J H Prisk took out an ad to say that he had sold his interests in the business to Samuel Prisk and sons. Sound like a family falling out to you?
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 