Winfield Drive in the suburb of Wigram, Christchurch

Winfield Drive in Wigram – Named after Denis Winfield (1899- 1979). Winfield was a farmer from Inglewood, Taranaki. He graduated from the Canterbury Flying School on 17 June 1918. In the Wigram Aerodrome subdivision by Ngāi Tahu Property Ltd where the street names are either of aircraft or taken from the list of the first 100 students at the Flight School established by Sir Henry Wigram in 1917. Named in 2012. Great Britain, Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificates, 1910‐1950 as found on Ancestry website.The Canterbury (NZ) Aviation Co. Ltd: the first one hundred pilots

A reasonable amount of information on the library website. Not much information on Papers Past but in 1914 there was a request for his scholarship from Stratford High School to be transferred to New Plymouth High School. Next entry was him being fined for being in a pub after hours in 1926. Nothing much on Ancestry website but I was amused by the two family trees where the surname was spelt wrong. Wingfield in one case and Windfield in the other case. Both family trees were quoting sources that had the correct spelling.

I walked this street on Friday before I tested positive for the plague. It was a pleasant street with houses built between 2013 and 2017 with most of them built in 2014. The architect with a column fetish obviously designed many of the houses here. One house looked slightly strange as it seemed to have a wooden wall on a plaster house. The two building materials didn’t really jell together in my eyes. There was also a house that looked like a bach rather than a house. There were some nice gardens here with quirky features. I did like the fake lambs on a lawn.