Corson Avenue in the suburb of Beckenham, Christchurch

Corson Ave – Named after Frederick Corson (1860?-1927). Corson was a member of the Heathcote Road Board 1902- 1907 and chairman 1906- 1907. Corson Avenue was dedicated in 1907. First appears in street directories in 1910.
A small amount of information from the library website. On Papers Past I found the same article from 1907 about this street being dedicated. On papers Past there were ads for sections in 1910 and 1911. The area was known as Fisherton for a long time and also known as both Beckenham and Sydenham. Information from Ancestry website has Frederick Corson born 19th Sept 1859 at Chatham Medway in Kent. He was an accountant and Papers Past has him working for Wood Bros. He is buried at Linwood Cemetery. The QV website has houses built from 1910 to 2019. The house built in 2019 is possibly a rebuild as it is actually originally built in the 1950s and still looks like a 1950s style of house.
This street is in a loop of the Heathcote River and goes from Waimea Tce to Eastern Tce. Mostly lovely wooden villas with lovely gardens on the street but at least two houses have been roughcasted. This was the fashion in 1950s and 1960s and I was always told to avoid such houses as you didn’t know if there was any rotten wood underneath the roughcast. There was one very rough rundown house but my photo of it isn’t very good. I was surprised to see that it looked like someone was living in it as it didn’t look habitable, I borrowed the book Beckenham A Suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand from the library and on page 64 has a note that after WWII this area was subdivided for further housing. If you are interested in this area it is a interesting wee book to read and it was published by Beckenham Neighbourhood Association.