Montgomery Tce in Hillsborough – Named after William Montgomery (1821-1914). Montgomery was a timber merchant and importer and the first chairman of the Heathcote Road Board. He later settled in Little River. First appears in street directories in 1946.
A small amount of information from the library website. William died in Little River aged 94 and he was born in London to Irish parents. Sadly his wife died in 1879 aged 43 and she possibly died in childbirth. He didn’t remarry. No scandals for this man.
Not a lot of information on Papers Past and the first entries were in 1957 when there was a dispute about road access. A landowner blocked access to the residents claiming that the residents had illegally built a road through his land. The residents said that the road had been there for at least 40 years. The dispute seemed to have arisen because a new house was being built. The residents eventually got access but it did involve lawyers. Lots of arguments about the status of the road whether it was a private or public road. The council maintained the road and they usually only did this for public roads. A letter to the editor complained about the steep goat track and a botched subdivision. The rest of the entries were mostly death notices and a few ads. There were a couple of grass fire and one of them was set by children.
There is at least one house that possibly dates from 1930s but I couldn’t get a good view of it. A couple from the 1960s and rest were built after 2013. These would have been rebuilds after the earthquakes. I don’t usually like modern houses but I did like one that was built in 2022. The original house here was probably demolished after the earthquakes but street view only goes back to 2019. So much for google maps promising to keep street view showing Christchurch before the earthquakes. Great views.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 