Leistrella Road in the suburb of Hoon Hay, Christchurch

Leistrella Road in Hoon Hay – First appears in street directories in 1951.

A tiny amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find out how the street got it’s name.

Papers Past had ads in 1962 and 1966 for the sale of sections. There were a few birth and death notices. The sewers were connected in 1961.

Most houses here were built in the 1950s and then in the 1990s. These houses were in the original part of the street. In the new part of the street the houses are still being built.

I walked the original part of the street which runs off Hoon Hay Rd and you come to a gate saying private property. There is a house beyond these gates. The houses here are typical wooden houses from the 1950s and the 1990s houses are made from brick. There was one house with a nice garden but the lawn was artificial grass.

When I checked google maps before writing up the street I realised that the street is being extended so I had to go back and walk the new part of the street. The new part of the street runs off Cashmere Rd and houses are still being built here but some look like they are occupied. There is what looks like a reserve at the Cashmere Rd end of this street. At this stage the two parts of the street don’t meet up and are blocked off.