Velsheda Street in the suburb of Bexley Red Zone, Christchurch

Velsheda Street in the Bexley Red Zone- Named after the Velsheda, a racing yacht. In the Pacific Park subdivision. Named in 1997.

A tiny amount of information from the library website. There is a street called Velsheda Road in a place called Shirley in the UK which confused me briefly. There is a wikipedia page for the yacht and it is named after the designer’s daughters who were Velma, Sheila and Daphne.

I was geocaching in the area today and I was surprised to see that there is still a house on this street. It actually looked like it is in reasonable condition. The rest of the houses have been demolished and after looking at street view for 2007 many of the houses looked quite nice. The houses would have all been built in the late 1990s and there are a couple of articles online about the street after the earthquakes plus a mention in Quake Studies.