Andrews Crescent – Named after Sir Ernest Herbert Andrews (1873- 1961). Andrews was mayor of Christchurch 1941- 1950. First mentioned in The Press in 1944. First appears in street directories in 1946. [Twenty-four single pensioners’ flats were built there by the Christchurch City Council in 1953.]
A small amount of information from the library website and not a lot that I can add to this. Only a couple of entries on Papers Past and in 1944 there was an entry about the building of four blocks of pensioner cottages. Ernest Andrews was knighted in the birthday honours in 1950. He is buried at Bromley but didn’t check ancestry website for more information.
I suspect that the cottages are no longer only occupied by pensioners but is just general social housing. One least one of the fake homeless lives here. Many of the units are in poor condition but some have been looked after. A reasonable amount of open space here and they aren’t crowded together.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 