Inverness Av.,Mount Roskill, Auckland

[Lucy2]

That's interesting kiwi jeanie, your friend living next door ... and terribly sad about the floods too. 

There is a very good, clear, picture of number "26 Invermay Avenue" which can be obtained by using the Google street view search.    I described the house in an earlier post ... and also zoomed in on it to make sure I had the correct place and street number.   (May save you a trip ??  )

I was going to add the "street view" link ... but I think they time-out after a little while ... so that's why I have given chempat the details on how to search on Google for it.

     ~  Lu

[minniehaha]

Not part of the brief:

Death:
1967/38133   Biddlecombe   Edwin John   56Y

Cemetery records:
Surname   BIDDLECOMBE
First Names   Edwin John
Age   56 Years
Gender   Male
Date of Death   26/10/67
Religion   Anglican
Serial No   26335
Funeral Director   Direct
Cemetery   Purewa Cemetery
Location   Block Z Row 4 Plot 19
Date of Service and/or Interment   07/03/68
What Buried?   Ashes

https://purewa.co.nz/find-a-loved-one/?first_name=&last_name=biddlecombe&date_of_death=

Surname   BIDDLECOMBE
First Names   Florence Evelyn
Age   67 Years
Gender   Female
Date of Death   Unknown
Religion   
Serial No   10056
Funeral Director   Sibuns Funeral Advisors
Cemetery   
Location   
Date of Service and/or Interment   08/03/65
What Buried?   
Ashes   Returned

Find a Grave record:

Edwin John Biddlecombe
BIRTH
1911
DEATH
26 Oct 1967 (aged 55–56)
BURIAL
Purewa Cemetery
Meadowbank, Auckland Council, Auckland, New Zealand
PLOT
Block Z Row 4 Plot 19

Minniehaha.

[chempat]

Thank-you for all the extra information, some of which I have.  I am still curious to know why the street was renamed but that name was not used on ER's.  I can find Invermay but was stubbornly still looking for an Inverness hiding somewhere.  I will stop that for now.  I do like street views because you can look to see how much the house has changed through the years, and also whether the same car is still in the drive - in some cases it has not moved in 10 years.
That travel information has the same birth date as his on 1939 register, so the correct man - Biddlecombe may be an unusual surname but there are a few around so it helps to make sure.

Just a related query - when I am looking for old streets in England I use an online 25" ordnance survey map of various years e.g. 1910 , 1941.  Quite a few streets disappeared in the war and during urban clearance.  Do any such maps exist for New Zealand?

[kiwi jeanie]

There was a 1908 Auckland map which I had saved on my laptop but when I went to the link it said Auckland archives had taken a lot of their information offline to update. Someone more experienced may be able to locate it for you

[kiwi jeanie]

https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Pages/notice.aspx

[chempat]

Thank-you for the link.