Westcott St in Dallington – Appears on a 1954 map. First appears in street directories in 1957.
A tiny amount of information from the library website. The street is possibly named after a place in the UK or it could be someone’s surname. This street runs off Belfield St and there is also a Westcott St in Timaru that runs off Belfield Hill. The Belfield in Timaru is named after a person but I couldn’t find any link to Christchurch so it is probably just a coincidence.
Not much information on Papers Past. A few death notices and for some reason the State Houses on the street occasionally had oven fires.
Most houses here were built in the 1950s but there is a block of State Houses / Housing Corp houses that are fairly new. Going by street view the original houses looked in reasonable condition. This is a very common trend at the moment with these houses. A couple of houses caught my eye. One was because of the topiary garden and the other was for sale. The one for sale said that all earthquake repairs had been done yet it looked very shabby and rundown.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 