Shelley Street – Named after Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792- 1822). Shelley was an English poet. One of the “poets and writers” streets of Sydenham, Addington and Waltham named by a committee of the Sydenham Borough Council on 19 January 1880. First mentioned in The Press in 1882 when land for sale there is advertised. First appears in street directories in 1903.
A small amount of information from the library website. In Papers Past there were sections for sale in 1878. Those days there was also a Shelley St in Avonside.
This is a tiny street and all but one house are over 100 years old. There is just one modern house dated from 1990s. Most are wooden workers cottages but there is one brick house from 1890. Sadly it is boarded up and I really hope that it gets repaired. I found one of the houses mentioned on a heritage website. The QV website had this house at 6 Shelley St as being built in 1915 but the heritage website has it dated from 1878. Gorgeous old cottages.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 