Harry Ell Drive in Cashmere – Named after Henry George “Harry” Ell (1862-1934). Ell was a prohibitionist, parliamentarian 1899- 1919, conservationist and an advocate of the establishment of a string of reserves along the Port Hills. First appears in street directories in 1990.
A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name.
The views from this street are fantastic and every house is built to take advantage of the views. Most of the houses were apparently built in the 1970s so I would have expected it to have been in street directories much earlier than 1990. So many different styles of houses and some I liked and some where toilet block style. They are all well beyond my budget unless someone would like to give me a million or two. There was one house at the top that I loved but I couldn’t get a decent view because of the trees surrounding. I did find a photo online on an official website that was taken in 2007 before the trees grew but because of copyright I couldn’t copy it. I was hoping that street view would show it but it didn’t.
There is someone who is poisoning trees that belong to an elderly woman. The trees are on her private land and it is mostly native bush much of which was planted by her late father. It is possible that the person doing this lives on this street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 