Angela Street in Upper Riccarton – One of the five residential streets containing mainly workers’ cottages making up the area known as Peerswick. First mentioned in The Press in 1878 when land in the Peerswick Estate is advertised for sale. First appears in street directories in 1910.
A small amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find out who the street was named after. A few entries on Papers Past and in 1878, 1882 and 1889 there were sections available on this street and the area in the ads was called Peerswick Township. Several birth and death notices. In 1955 someone wanted to establish a potato crisp factory. In 1967 Mrs Ainsworth was upset that her plans to build two shops on the corner of Yaldhurst Rd and Angela St was stopped by the council’s decision to rezone the land as residential. The land had been zoned as commercial land in 1959. There is a car park on the corner of Yaldhurst Rd and Angela St that services a group of shops.
Most houses seem to have been built between 1960s and 1990s and none stood out for me. The house from 1905 is looking very sad and it would have been a lovely house. Real estate agents ads for the street promote many properties as being ideal for students.
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