Heathfield Avenue in the suburb of Fendalton, Christchurch

Heathfield Ave formerly Heathfield Road -Named after Heathfield, the property of William Cuddon (1834-1924). Land belonging to Cuddon, a brewer and maltster, was sub-divided into 32 sections in 1913 and auctioned. A house was built there for Geoffrey Ernest Fitzhardinge Kingscote (1889?-1949), an accountant, and his wife, Florence Agnes Placida Kingscote, née Humphries, (1889-1975), ready for Kingscote’s return from serving in the army during World War One. The house was demolished in 2000. Heathfield Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1913. Is Heathfield Avenue in a death notice in The Press in 1917. First appears in street directories in 1918.

A reasonable of information from the library website and there is nothing that I could add to it except that the library have this street in the suburb of Mairehau which is totally wrong. This street is in the heart of Fendalton and is at least two suburbs away from Mairehau.

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand has more information about William Cuddon if you want to know more about him. The library have a shorter version under Early Residents of Fendalton. I liked the bit where it said that he was popular with his neighbours because he had a private bowling green. I am assuming that they were allowed to use it.

Found articles on Stuff from 2017 and 2018 and this street is apparently the most expensive street in Christchurch. Well beyond my budget.

Hard to see some of the houses because of high fences. Some amazing houses but a couple were fairly average. There was one place that had a wee bridge over the stream to get to it but it was taped off so I suspect that it will be getting repaired or demolished to make way for a new build.I am also assuming that the huge place with security camera signs is the house that was mentioned in one of the Stuff articles.
I was amused by wee wooden structure on the footpath as it was a toilet.A pleasant wee street and this mature woman wearing a backpack walking on the street would probably be considered suspicious. I don’t do handbags.