Landy St in Dallington – Named after John Landy (1930-). Landy was an Australian athlete and the second man to break the four-minute mile. In a group of streets named after athletes. Named in 1955.
A small amount of information from the library website and not much that I can add about the name of the street. John Landy was a State Governor in Australia and he died in 2022.
Not a lot of information in Papers Past. A few death notices. There were sections for sale in 1960 and these were offered by International Homes. The subdivision was part of a Government Housing Block. This was another street where the residents seemed to be rather accident prone especially with car accidents but I did feel for the man who had a road sign fall on him.
Most houses here were built in the 1950s and 1960s with a few more recent rebuilds. Only the middle section of the street still has houses and both ends of the street are in the red zone. None of the houses stood out for me and I only took a photo of a red zone part of the street. Note it did start raining today while I was walking here. I have in my head that I should know people who used to live on this street but not sure.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 