Sumnervale Drive in the suburb of Sumner, Christchurch

Sumnervale Drive in Sumner and there is nothing about this street on the library website. The street would have been developed from a farm called Sumnervale Estate. The ownership of this farm I am not sure about without checking land registrar. Gordon Ogilvie in his book Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills has the farm owned by George Humphreys and managed by Walter de Thier. The only mention I could find on Papers Past about Sumnervale Estate was in the 1930s after George Humpheys death. George Humphreys obituary only mentions his house in Fendalton and his Richmond Hill estate. Walter de Thier died in 1973 and his only son died before him and he is described as a sheep farmer in electoral rolls with address Sumnervale. Most the houses were built in 1970s and 1980s which would fit in with his death. There is one house dating from 1890 but it was down a long driveway so I couldn’t see it. This is a street that is split into two. Part of the street runs from Evans Pass Road to a track that leads to Sumnervale Reserve. There is also an entrance to Captain Thomas Track here. You follow the path from the street down to the reserve where there is a pony club. Follow a wee stream to the playground and it eventually leads you to the rest of the street. The pony club explains signs saying no riding horses on the footpath. For a short distance there are houses on only one side of the street because of the hill. This part of the street runs from Sumnervale Reserve to Wakefield Ave near where Evans Pass Rd starts. Some really nice houses here and the higher part of the street would have good views.