Malcolm Ave – Named after Robert Malcolm (1863-1929). Malcolm was a Heathcote Road Board member. He lived in St. Martins and managed an importing and manufacturing agency in Christchurch. Dedicated in 1907. First appears in street directories in 1909.
A small amount of information from the library website. Papers Past has ads for the sale of sections in 1911 and 1913 plus new houses for sale in 1920. Another street that was part of Fisherton. James Fisher had a house at 4 Malcolm Ave which was built in 1880 and demolished in 1989. The information about the house is from the book Beckenham, A Suburb of Christchurch. The area was called Fisherton because of the Fisher family.
The information from the ancestry website has Robert Malcolm in Anderston in Glasgow on 24/08/1863. I am amused that one family tree on the ancestry website has him born in the US with the same DOB. He is buried in the Addington cemetery.The Beckenham book had information that there was a police station at 2 Malcolm Ave from 1928 to 1958.
The QV website has the houses dating from 1910 to 1970. There were at least two houses built in 1960 that were brick.
There is a house in this street that I love at Halloween as they have the most wonderful decorations. This is a brick house but it was built in the 1920s and was originally a wooden house. The QV website has a photo of the house and it is half brick and half wooden whereas it is now completely brick.
The street starts at Colombo St and there is a bridge across the Heathcote River and it ends at the Heathcote River at Eastern Tce, The Heathcote river does a big loop here. On the corner of Birdwood Ave and Malcolm Ave is a cafe called The Birdwood. Almost opposite the cafe is the Methodist church.
Between Colombo St and the bridge at Hunter Tce it is considered to be in the suburb of Cashmere but from the bridge to Eastern Tce it is in the suburb of Beckenham.
Some lovely houses here including wooden villas but there is more of a mixture of styles.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 