Mackay Street in the suburb of Wigram, Christchurch

Mackay Street – Named after Douglas Mackay (1897-1964). Mackay was a clerk from Spreydon, Christchurch. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 25 March 1918. 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 2012.A small amount of information from the library website. I searched ancestry website and Past Papers and struggled to find out much information about Douglas Mackay. There were two men with the same name who attended the flying school and there is a lot more information about the other one.Information from the Great Britain Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificates has his DOB as 7th December 1897 and living at Middle Lincoln Rd Spreydon and that he was born in Spreydon. Occupation was clerk and he trained in a Caudron Biplane. Received his certificate on 25th March 1918. He married Emily Catherine Candy and Candys Rd in Halswell is named after her father. In World War Two he was a traffic Inspector in Waimate and he died in Waimate in March 1964. Emily died in September 1966. Most the houses here were built from about 2017 to 2020 and I have a couple of screen shots from google maps showing them being built. It was a warm evening when I walked this street and I couldn’t get photos. I have mixed feelings about some of these houses as I quite like them but they would be better in a different setting. Where they are on this street you are so exposed to the neighbours and any random nosy person (like me) walking past. I know that it is very strange for me to like modern houses but these are very different to normal houses. Parking would be horrendous and this street is very close to The Landing.