Te Awakura Tce in Mt Pleasant – Named after the Te Awakura creek at Moncks Bay. Named by Walter de Thier (1883-1973) who owned the land at Moncks Bay where the creek flowed. First appears in street directories in 1939.
A small amount of information from the library website. I found two spellings for this street. Some maps had Te Awakura Tce and others had Te Awa Kura Tce. The street wasn’t on the 1922 map but it was on the map for the 1930s. Papers Past also had both spellings. Several birth and death notices in Papers Past. Sections were for sale as early as 1943. In 1945 Geoffrey de Thier was living on this street and in 1948 houses on this street were damaged by a grass fire on the hill. The two most interesting articles involved cars falling onto houses. In 1958 a car landed in the backyard of a house after rolling down a driveway. In 1964 a delivery van delivering a parcel to an address on this street managed to land on the roof of a house on the Main Rd. A crane was required for both situations to remove the cars.
This street twisted and turned and was intersected by St Andrews Hill Rd and is very narrow with no footpath. The houses here cover every decade from the 1930s and there was at least one art deco style of house. One house that I liked was built in the 1990s. An interesting street but parking would be a nightmare.
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