Martin Avenue in the suburb of Beckenham, Christchurch

Martin Ave – formerly Martin’s Avenue. Named after John Martin. Martin was a land and estate agent and also chairman of the Heathcote Road Board 1899-1901. He lived in Grange Street, Hillsborough. Dedicated as a public street in 1907. Martin’s Avenue first appears in street directories in 1909. Becomes Martin Avenue in 1914.
A small amount of information from the library website.. On Papers Past found the same information about being dedicated as a public street. Many sections for sale in 1910 and area described as Fisherton. The QV website had many houses built in 1910 and 1920 and they are lovely wooden villas . A couple of brick houses dated from 1990. Papers Past had articles about Methodist Church School Hall in the 1940s and what I thought was a very modern house was actually the Martin Ave entrance to the Methodist Church. It has obviously been rebuilt after the earthquakes. The Martin Ave entrance also has the car park for the church.
I couldn’t find any information about John Martin on the ancestry website and it wasn’t helped that it was a very common name in Canterbury.
No information about John Martin in the Beckenham book that I borrowed from the library and no extra information about the street.
Another lovely street in the Beckenham area and I do like the older wooden villas. Another street in the Heathcote River loop and runs from Waimea Tce to Eastern Tce. I didn’t get as many photos as I would have liked of the gorgeous houses.