Ferrymead Terrace in Ferrymead and nothing on the library website. I would have expected this street to have been in Mt Pleasant or Heathcote. The street was obviously named after the area Ferrymead and Ferrymead means meadow by ferry.
Strange that there wasn’t anything on the library website as the street is mentioned in Papers Past in 1948 when houses in the area were damaged by a fire outbreak in St Andrews hills. A house at 11 Ferrymead Terrace was damaged and the house was owned by Mr S C Wing. This house was built in 1920. Not a lot of information on Papers Past and just a couple of death notices. Between the 1960s and 1980s there were lots of ads for the selling of fruit especially plums at 7 Ferrymead Terrace. I checked out Mr Wing on ancestry as I knew his name. I don’t recall ever meeting him but I own a spinning wheel that he made. He was well known in spinning groups for making spinning wheels and my mother-in-law knew him.
I checked old maps and Ferrymead Terrace isn’t on these maps and I checked up to 1960. Sydney Wing was also a furniture maker and his ads gave an address of Heathcote Bridge. Mrs Cannon also gave Heathcote Bridge as an address.
Census records and War Records for Sydney Wing before 1948 had his address as Bridle Path Road. I couldn’t find any information for a street name change but I suspect that Ferrymead Terrace used to be part of Bridle Part Road.
The valuation website that I use had only 5 houses on the street dated between 1920 and 1950 but when you walk the street it looks like more houses than that are on the street. This website isn’t always the most reliable. It was an interesting street to walk as there isn’t a footpath and it is fairly narrow with a steep bank on one side. I remembered an article about a car having gone over the bank from the street. Took me a while to find the article and it had happened in 2020. I believe that some of the houses have garages on Cannon Hill Crescent.
For a small street I took lots of photos and my best photos of the houses I took from across the river as you can’t see the houses properly from the actual street. You would have to be fit to live on this street going by the steps that led to the houses. These same houses probably had garages on Cannon Hill Crescent. The houses here would have great views but I wouldn’t feel safe as personally I think that you would be at risk of landslides. Parking would also be a problem plus when I got back to my car I saw that someone had parked so that they were blocking the entrance to the street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 