Aldersley Street in Richmond – Named after Philip Atkinson Aldersley (1883?-1963). Aldersley ran a bakery business in Richmond in the 1940s and 1950s. He lived at 17 Chrystall Street. In a government housing settlement off North Parade. When the street was named after Aldersley, he gave the Mayor, E. H. Andrews, £5 for the first baby to be born to residents of the street. Named in 1941. First appears in street directories in 1943.
A small amount of information from the library website. Not many entries on Papers Past and in April 1943 there is mention of a family having a baby and qualifying for the £5 but no more details. A complaint about the state of the street in 1945 but council reply was that it was the Housing dept responsible for the street and not the council. There was a death notice in 1967 for a Douglas Kershaw and there is a nearby street called Kershaw Place. Philip owned a bakery on Stanmore Rd and the electoral rolls show him as living on Stanmore Rd until 1928. From 1931 onwards he lived at 17 Chrystal St with his son and daughter. Sadly his wife died in 1930 aged 56. Philip was born in 1882 in Croydon and I didn’t found the date but he came out to New Zealand with his parents.
Most the houses here date from 1940s and are the original Housing dept houses and are built in the typical State Housing style of the 1940s. One has been altered and looks different to the original house and many of the houses are now privately owned. There is a group of flats built in 2017 and these look like social housing. The street runs off Flesher Avenue.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 