Nelson Street – Named after the city and province of Nelson. One of a group of streets named after places in central New Zealand. First mentioned in The Press in 1901 in a report of a meeting of the Riccarton Road Board. The surveyor reported on the roads in Hall’s township, and it was decided the board would take over Nelson Street, Elizabeth Street, Marlborough Street and Picton avenue, from Riccarton road to south side of Dilworth Street and from south side of Alma Street to the southern end of Picton avenue. First appears in street directories in 1908.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Nelson was obviously named after Horatio Nelson. This short street has businesses one side and flats the other side. There was also a church in a fairly modern building. There was an entrance for the Windmill Centre and has anyone noticed that the Windmill has disappeared from the Windmill Centre. Some of the flats were looking a bit rundown and they looked like they could be social housing. This street is very close to Riccarton Mall AKA Westfield Mall.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 