Joe Burns Place in the suburb of Wigram, Christchurch

Joe Burns Place – Named after a local identity of the Wigram area. First appears in street directories in 1993.A small amount of information from the library website. I found a Joseph Gregory Burns who was an airman at Wigram and in 1969 his address was Air Force Station. He died 31st March 1990 and he was born 24th June 1915. Couldn’t find much information on the Ancestry website. In 1952 he married Gladys Crum and in 1941 his occupation was jockey. It is highly likely that he lived in the area where this street is situated and most the houses here were built in 2000. There is a walkway through to Corsair Ave. There is a footpath on only one side of the street which I dislike. The developer with the column fetishes obviously built some of these houses. It actually looked like a pleasant street apart from the footpath issue. I actually walked this street in November last year but only posted on Facebook and not here. Taking advantage of lockdown and a wet day to tidy up my street project.