Tavendale Place in St Albans – Formed on land previously owned by Ernest Alexander Ching (1910?-1969), a carpenter. In 1957 he is listed as living at 117 Mays Road where this street was formed. Named in 1955. First appears in street directories in 1960.
A reasonable amount of information from the library but I couldn’t find out why it was called Tavendale. Probably named after a person but I couldn’t find out who it was named after. I couldn’t find a link with Ernest Ching. Ernest was born in Kaiapoi in 1918. He was a conscientious objector in World War Two and he was granted a divorce from his wife in 1965. It didn’t give a reason for the divorce which was unusual for those days. He was living with his mother after his divorce and was living with her when he died. This would have made him only 51 when he died. None of the family trees on Ancestry website mentions the divorce. Both Ernest and his wife Dorothy appeared in court occasionally on minor charges.
Nothing much in Papers Past about the street just a few death notices and a few ads.
Most houses were built in the 1950s and a couple were demolished after the earthquakes and rebuilt. Footpath on both sides of the road and it seemed like a pleasant street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 