Urella Place in the suburb of Spreydon, Christchurch

Urella Place in Spreydon. This street isn’t on the library website yet it dates back to the 1970s. Strangely for a street that was developed back then there is a footpath on only one side of the street. Older streets normally have footpaths on both sides of the street. Most houses date from 1970s with about three from 1980s and a couple from 2016. The street seems to be developed where 185 Lyttelton Street would have been. Houses are mostly made of brick with a few exceptions. Near the Lyttelton Street end there are flat roofed flats built in the 1970s and they stand out as they are different to the rest of the houses. It is unusual to get flat roofed houses from this era as most in this style in Christchurch date back to the 1930s and 1940s. I chatted with one of the owners of these flats and he said that he has problems with leaks. He also said that it is a pleasant street to live in and almost too convenient for Barrington Mall.I had an uncle live in this street at one stage but can’t remember the exact dates and I just couldn’t remember which house he lived in. I had in my head that it was one of the flat roofed flats. I couldn’t find out how this street got it’s name. No one with that surname in New Zealand. There was a racehorse with that name in the 1920s. There is a place name in Australia Uralla and a village in India called Urella. I am amused that one real estate attempted to put this street into the suburb of Cashmere.