Candys Road in Halswell – formerly Candy’s Road. Named after Charles Benjamin Candy (1825- 1905). Candy ran a dairying and cheesemaking business in Halswell 1875-1902. He took up the land where Candys Road was later developed. A tender was accepted by the Spreydon Road Board for the gravelling of Candy’s Road in 1875. First appears in street directories in 1908.
A small amount of information from the library website. Charles Benjamin Candy’s obituary said that he sold his property in 1898 and moved to Moorhouse Ave to live. He apparently won prizes for his cheeses.
For an older street there wasn’t much information on Papers Past. In 1879 tenders were invited for shingling of the road. In 1936 the Canterbury Central Co-Op Dairy Company was selling their property here. There was a couple of death notices in the 1940s. In the 1950s and 1960s Mr Gardiner allowed his farm to be used for bike racing. In 1975 and 1984 there were articles about the Halswell Pottery group. The group started in 1971 in an old farmhouse that was owned by Ron and Joan Gardiner. Several entries on Papers Past about the pottery group mostly about when they were open to the public.
There is only 7 houses on this road most are at Halswell Rd end and were built between 1950 and 1990. I managed to get a photo of the house that was built in 1910 but hard to see through the trees. The house built in 2016 is at the Sabys Rd end of the road. I couldn’t get an age for the old farmhouse that houses the Halswell pottery group as it wasn’t on the valuation website that I use but it possibly dates from 1910 as well.
As it is a country road there isn’t a footpath and at the Halswell Rd end as well as most of the houses being here there is also Moffatts Flower Company. There is roadworks on part of the road at the Sabys Rd end of the road. There was a nice wide grass verge to walk on and the road was shorter than I was expecting.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 