Hercules Street in the suburb of Shirley, Christchurch

Hercules Street in Shirley- First appears in street directories in 1948. Tiny amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find out how this street got it’s name. I expected Papers Past to have information but nothing. I actually walked this street in May but didn’t have time to research to write it up as June and July was rather busy with frequent hospital visiting. This street runs from Marshlands Rd to Quinns Rd and there are only about 30 houses here. Most seem to have been built in 1940s and 1950s. They are typical of that era and some have a state house look about them. If they weren’t state houses it is possible that they were built under the returned servicemen scheme. If they had been state houses I would have expected them to have been mentioned in Papers Past. Street is very handy for The Palms Mall. Edited to say that I found it more information about the street and it was social housing in a block of land called Emmett’s Block. Arthur Emmett died in 1948 and he was a farmer in the area.