Westby Street in the suburb of Waltham, Christchurch

Westby Street in Waltham – Named after Westby Brook Perceval (1854- 1938). Perceval, a lawyer, was the Member of Parliament for Christchurch 1890-1891, and agent-general for New Zealand in the United Kingdom from 1891. First appears in street directories in 1912.A small amount of information from the library website. Very little information on Papers Past. The residents agreed to the street being widened in 1928 and gave land for this. In 1930 it was recognised as a public street. I suspect that there was originally only two or three houses here and they were on big sections. I walked this street yesterday and it is a lovely wee street. There are only 9 properties here and two date from 1910 and another from 1920. Then there is one from 1950, one from 1960, one from 1980 and then two from 1990. One modern house from 2016. If you want to read more about Westby Brook Perceval I covered him fully when I wrote up Percival Street.