Laing Crescent in the Heathcote Valley, Christchurch

Laing Crescent – Named after William Baillie Laing (1899-1971). Laing was a Heathcote County Councillor for over 20 years. First appears in street directories in 1972. Information supplied in 2008 by William Laing’s daughter, Janice Weir, in an interview with Margaret Harper. A small amount of information from the library website. Information from ancestry website says that William was born in Scotland and immigrated to NZ in 1926. He settled in the Lyttelton area before moving to Heathcote where he lived on Port Hills Rd. I couldn’t find an obituary for him which was rather surprising. Most houses are dated from 1980s and 1990s but a few more recent ones. There was at least two houses from 1910 and 1920. The street isn’t actually crescent shaped and ends at a wee reserve called Laing Reserve. A mixture of house styles here and wish that I could have managed more photos. One house had a very interesting garden but was unable to get photos.