Rudds Road in the suburb of Linwood, Christchurch

Rudds Road in Linwood and I was really surprised that this street isn’t on the library website as it is an older street. I searched Papers Past and ancestry website. The earliest mention that I could find on Papers Past was in 1905 when it was mentioned by the council when talking about a reserve on the corner of Buckleys Rd and Rudds Rd. That reserve is now Bromley Park. Drains were laid in 1915. There wasn’t any births or death notices for this street as you would normally expect for an older streets. A few ads and then a property for sale in 1941. In 1870s Rudd’s Paddock is mentioned. In 1906 there is a mention of Rudd’s corner. By 1890s it was being called Rudd’s land. The land was owned by William James Rudd and he called his farm Sandhills. He died in 1903 aged 80 and his wife died in 1904 aged 72 and they are both buried at Avonside. There was another William James Rudd but he lived in Sydenham and is a different person but a few family trees on ancestry have him as just the one person. I was amused by how many family trees have William born in 1834 but baptised in 1786.There were a few entries for William’s son Phillip as in 1895 he was reported as being missing. I am assuming that they found him as the next entry was about Phillip’s death after escaping from Sunnyside. There are houses here dating from 1940s onwards with many built in 1940s and 1950s and they are mostly wooden houses. A couple from 1960s and 1970s and then a large number from 2000 onwards. I liked the houses built in 2000 as they had an older look to them but they didn’t look odd as can sometimes happen. I realised when walking that all the older houses are on one side of the street and all the newer ones are on the other side of the street. I liked this street and I did find the geocache hidden on the street. There was one particular property that I liked and I can’t remember the house but the garden was lovely and quirky. This property had one of those bug hotels on the fence.