Euston Street in the suburb of Riccarton, Christchurch

Euston St in Riccarton – Named after Euston Road in the London borough of Camden. It was the first street developed in the Shand subdivision. First mentioned in the Star in 1908 when canaries for sale there are advertised. First appears in street directories in 1908. Euston St – Named after Euston Road in the London borough of Camden. It was the first street developed in the Shand subdivision. First mentioned in the Star in 1908 when canaries for sale there are advertised. First appears in street directories in 1908. A reasonable amount of information from the library website and I found the same mention of canaries for sale. There was also an Euston St in Sumner which was a much older street. I found two Shand families but John Shand who died in 1874 lived in Avon Lodge Riccarton and his occupation was gentleman. He had three children and two died fairly young. His wife also died young and John came to New Zealand after his wife’s death and there is no record of him remarrying. His son Thomas J W Shand lived in the property after his father’s death and there is no record of Thomas getting married. Thomas was still living in Riccarton until his death in 1918 aged 83. He is buried with his father in Upper Riccarton. This Shand family came from Liverpool so the name Euston must have come from whoever developed the land for housing. I will complain yet again about the mistakes that people make on the ancestry website. I wish that they would do their research properly. This street runs from Riccarton Rd to Peverel St and at the Riccarton Rd end there are shops and a car yard. There are some lovely older wooden houses here dating from 1910 to 1920. A few from 1930 to 1950 and they have a State House look about them. There were a lot of brick houses from the 1990s and brick seemed to be the favoured building material in the 1990s. There were also a few houses built in 2018. It actually looked like a pleasant street but suspect that it might be student territory which would put me off. Note I am catching up on streets that I walked in July 2020 and have no idea why I didn’t write them up at the time.