Limbrick Crescent in the suburb of Wigram, Christchurch

Limbrick Crescent – Named after Leslie Alfred Limbrick (1893-1963). Limbrick was a garage proprietor from Napier. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 24 August 1917. In the Wigram Aerodrome subdivision by Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd where the street names are either of aircraft or taken from the list of the first 100 students at the Flight School established by Sir Henry Wigram in 1917. Named in 2014.A reasonable amount of information from the library website but this is a very confused street. There is a mysterious Limbrick Close that only appears on the QV website. Limbrick Crescent has a close shaped street off it beside Kahuku Park and the signpost says Limbrick Crescent Nos 28 to 48 but QV has 9 properties as being Limbrick Close and the numbering is weird as it goes 1, 3, 5, 6. 7. 8, 11. 36 and 40. Didn’t take any photos and many houses seem to be a strange looking mixture of brick and weatherboard cladding. The developer who is obsessed about columns seems to have been busy here. Some of the columns are made of a slate type of rock. The best part about this street is the two parks. Kahuku Park and Parera Park. The street is named after Leslie Alfred Limrick who was born 14th April 1893 in North Brighton in Victoria, Australia. His parents were Robert Loosemoore and Frances Amy Limbrick of Australia. His address at enlistment was Emerson St in Napier and occupation salesman/ cycle merchant and garage owner. In Oct 1917 the Indian Motorcyclist group put on a farewell for Leslie and they noted that he was the most enthusiastic motorcyclist. This will explain why he is mentioned in Papers Past occasionally being fined for excessive speed and one time he went over 8 MPH. He also raced on his motorbike. In 1916 he was rejected by the army because of a hernia but he was obviously fit enough to go overseas in 2017. He was discharged in July 1020 as he was no longer physically fit. In 1922 he married Winifred Mary Ryan and they were divorced 20th August 1945. Winifred is supposed to have remarried in the same year but couldn’t find the proof. He then married Sarah May Longney in 1946 and they had one son. He died 11th July 1963 in Taupo.