Kinnaird Place in the suburb of Hillmorton, Christchurch

Kinnaird Place – Named after Kinnaird, a house in Lincoln Road. Peter Duncan (1838- 1907), a blacksmith, manufacturing engineer and founder of P & D Duncan Ltd., built the house in 1880 on 5 acres of land leased from the Church of England. The property, in turn, was named after a castle near Duncan’s Brechin birthplace. At the time of his death he was living at a neighbouring property, Airdmhor. From the 1920s, Kinnaird was owned by David Bain of D. M. Bain & Sons until it was subdivided in the 1940s. Named in 1955.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Most of the houses are summerhill stone but there are a couple of weatherboard houses. At the end there was a brand new looking flash house plus some new places built off the road that I couldn’t see properly.. I suspect that there had been a couple of old places that had been demolished where the new houses are.
The photo is of an old house which I believe is the house that the street is named after. I remember that the family who lived in this house had children at school the same time as my sons.Please note that the David Bain mentioned on the library website has no connection to the murderer with the same name.