Ulm Place in the Red Zone of Burwood – Named after Charles Thomas Philippe Ulm (1897-1934). Ulm was an Australian aviator who helped pioneer flying in Australia. During the late 1920s he flew with fellow Australian, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Continues the aviation theme of street names in the area. Named on 21 February 1962. First appears in street directories in 1964. Information on date of naming in a letter sent to the City Librarian from the Town Clerk dated 26 February 1962.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Not sure why a suburb that is a long way from the airport or Wigram has aviation themed street names. This street ran off Goodman St and looks like it had about 12 houses on it. At the end of the street there was a walkway through to New Brighton Rd. In the street view from 2012 the houses that were still standing didn’t look too bad from the outside. The houses have now obviously all been demolished. Charles Ulm sounds like an interesting but possibly arrogant person. Huge number of entries about him in Papers Past. As well as flying with Kingsford-Smith he helped to set up Australian National Airway with him. After this airline failed he set up his own airline and is credited with delivering the first official airmail from New Zealand to Australia. He was born in 1898 in Melbourne and died in December 1934 aged 36 when his plane ditched into the sea. They were lost and running out of fuel. There was no life raft on board as he didn’t think that he needed it as his belief was that the plane would float.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 