Cardinal Drive in the suburb of Hillmorton, Christchurch

Cardinal Drive – Named after Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473?- 1530). Named in 1966. That was brief bit of information from the library website. Not sure why a question mark for year of birth as Thomas Wolsey is a well-known historic person who was born in March 1473 in Ipswich. This area of Hillmorton was mostly named after Anglican church members. I don’t know if it is still the case but much of the land here was owned by the Anglican church and houses were cheaper because the land was leasehold. Houses mostly brick or summerhill stone and built in the 1960s. There was one house that I would loved to have taken a photo of but there were a couple of men in the next door driveway. I couldn’t figure out if it was an old cottage that had been added to or was built this way. I used to know this street well as I knew people who lived here but just can’t remember this house. I have a feeling that it is an older cottage that has been modernised. My one photo is of a vehicle in someone’s drive and it amused me.