Cunliffe Rd in Redwood – formerly Part of Farquhars Road. First appears in street directories in 1960. A tiny amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find any information on Papers Past about the change in the street and the only map I could find was from 1962 and it already had Cunliffe Rd on it. In 1970 there were sections for sale and I suspect that these sections would have been from William Cunliffe’s estate as he died in 1965. Found a brief obituary for William and he was the nephew of Richard John Seddon. He was 85 when he died and had worked for the railways for most of his life. Lived on Cunliffe Rd when he retired. Not quite right but close. In 1949 William and his wife lived at 448 North Road and in 1957 it has them at 448 Cunliffe Rd but by 1963 he was at 7 Cunliffe Rd. What I think that I need to check out is when the overbridge was built. A pleasant street that runs off the Main North Rd and William’s house at No 7 is now called Cunliffe House and is a rest home. It looks like a lovely place to retire to and if you ever see a man sitting on his walking frame near the overbridge he is from the rest home. Only 12 houses here dating from 1950 to 1990.
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