Flowers Track in the suburb of Scarborough, Christchurch

Flowers Track -Named after Arthur Edward Flower (1874- 1952) Goes from Scarborough Road to Nicholson Park Flower was a pupil of Christ’s College and later a master at for 40 years. He was a resident of Scarborough in the 1930s. A reasonable amount of information from the library website. This is a confused wee street as it really just a walking track but there are houses and letterboxes here. The library website didn’t give a suburb for it but it is in Scarborough. Another website doesn’t recognise Scarborough and has all the streets in Sumner. I can find no evidence of Arthur Flower living here without checking land registry. The ancestry website has him living very close to Christ College and in the 1930s his address was Christ’s College. In the 1940s his address was Bealey Ave and in the 1950s and 1960s his widow was living on Park Tce. Flower was a pupil at Christ College from 1886 to 1892 and by 1912 he was an assistant master at the college. I suspect that Arthur Flower had a holiday home in Scarborough and this track lead to it. To travel from Scarborough to the central city in the 1920s and 1930s would have been a huge journey. There are 7 properties here dating from 1910 to 1930 and this track seems to be the only way of getting to the houses. Unless there is a secret road that isn’t on the maps I can’t see how you can drive to them. I don’t recommend cycling here as there is a sign saying no cyclists as cycling is damaging the drains for these houses. Always knew cycling was evil. The houses would have great views. I was possibly geocaching in the area.