Ellery Street in Northcote and nothing on the library website for this street. The valuation website that I use claims that the houses here were built between 1980 and 2010 but most were actually built in the 1950s. The earliest mention on Papers Past is a MED ad in 1954. Can anyone else remember when they would cut the power on a Sunday to do maintenance on the power lines. Everyone would be rushing to get the Sunday roast cooked in time. In 2019 there were at least 3 state houses on this street and I suspect that at one stage the entire street was state housing. I would have expected it to have been mentioned on Papers Past but nothing. I checked for the surname Ellery but couldn’t find a link. There was an amateur boxer but he didn’t live in the area. There was a bricklayer and he is a possibility. More likely to have been named after some obscure government worker in Wellington.
A tree lined narrow street with limited parking. None of the houses stood out for me but what did stand out were the tree roots creating cracks in the footpath. I had to be careful that I didn’t trip over them.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 