Deyell Crescent – Named after Joseph Deyell (1867?-1936) – The stables of J. Deyell and Co. were at the corner of Deyell Crescent and Strickland Street in 1940, the year it first appears in street directories.
This is the sort information that I like to get from the library website as it gives a bit of history of the street.
I am not sure why it is called a crescent as is it a short straight street of mostly nice older house with nice gardens, There was just one wee problem and that is a leaking water meter. This is really common sight that I see when walking around the streets. The City Council keep telling the people of Christchurch to conserve water but they are wasting huge amounts of water by not fixing the leaks. The older suburbs are the worst and I suspect that the cause is a mixture of earthquake damaged older pipes that haven’t been repaired properly. Cars using the footpaths as car parks don’t help plus a council that doesn’t seem to care.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 