Understanding NZ Directories street orientations

[Lucy2]

Hello Blacksmithy

You may already have this info ??

I had a look at Christchurch Electoral rolls >
Christchurch East Roll
   1905-06 and 1908 - William and Rhoda WELSH - at 100 Hawdon Street, Sydenham

   1911 and 1914 - Christchurch East roll
-  both are now listed as residing at No. 12 Hawdon Street, Sydenham

-  William's death notice of 1916 (died at ChCh Hospital) but mentions  12 Hawdon Street.

William apparently died Intestate and it wasn't until 1963 that a claim was officially made on his estate.

The following article shows the "for sale" notice for 12 Hawdon Street ...
"Sydenham Cottage on a small section ... Beautifully clean and tidy .... situated just by Brougham Street " :
.... On account of the Administrators in the Estate of the late William WELSH :

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19630622.2.214.7

    ~   Lu

Edited to add:   Hi Blacksmithy ... I realise in having re-read your query, that it was more info you were wanting for 100 Hawdon Street.  However will leave my replies in place here in case they are of use.     

[Lucy2]

Hi again

Just in case you don't already have it, here is link to the Administration file in Estate of late William WELSH.   
It mentions the reason for the claim not being made until 1963 was due to the fact that William's spinster daughter, Jean Carlyle WELSH had lived there until her death in November 1962.

https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE69641298

   ~  Lu

[blacksmithy]

Thank you everyone for your help and input.  I agree Alan, the maps are not looking like 100 houses! And I will go and have a good look at your map tomorrow.

Following a subsequent post by Shanreagh, I gather they must have lived on the right side of the road heading away from Brougham Street given the even numbers of their house.

The retrolens.co.nz looks fascinating with some interesting aerial photos, I'm sure there must be something of interest for this part of my research and subsequent family houses to find.  I have work leave coming up and can't wait to get to the libraries!

Thank you for your research Lucy2.  After last night's search I had found some of this information.  William's daughter continued to live in the house and had spina bifida.  She took in sewing and knitting. There are a number of papers past articles about this family which seems to have come to light since I last looked.  After her death, the family home was sold but I did not have the Administration file for the Estate, so this is very important to me.

Thanks again for everyone's time and expertise.

[Fresh Fields]

Hello again.

It has taken me 20 minutes tonight to remember how to negotiate the site, and download zoomed in images in a higher resolution, but hopefully this link will take you to an aerial photo taken on 13/9/1940. Not being a city I am familiar with, the first problem is to sort out the direction of the flight recording the succeeding photos, and then locate your target within.

https://files.interpret.co.nz/Retrolens/Imagery/SN152/Crown_152_130_47/High.jpg

The next set were taken in 1946.

In the center of the photo in the link, is a square area that is Sydenham Park bounded by Brougham Street.

The base map upon which all the overlapping photographs are layered, shows numbered plots which I assume are the current street numbers, allowing you to identify the particular property. In 1940 all on Maston Street appear to be residential sections with a house on each, and Hawden a mixture of commercial and private dwellings. Revised after further study.

I will PM you with more detailed info that I have been able to extract.

While Retrolenz provides this service for personal research, RootsChat has some strict rules re copyright and republishing, so will PM you with more info.

Alan.

[Fresh Fields]

Morning all.

Once again in a rush.

PM contact has been made with Blacksmithy.

RE Lucy2's post 9, the roll listing of 100 Hawdon Street appears to have been a typo. I can not find survey allotment numbers, or street number references, as high as 100 for Hawdon street Sydenham, in the years 1905 / 1960's.

The Retrolenz overlay gives street numbers, but I am struggling with matching up street numbers 12 and 14 with the two sets of aerial photos I have downloaded and zoomed in on. Over time the originally surveyed allotments have been subdivided down into smaller parcels of land. Some were down to one eighth of an acre by 1905 [PP adverts] and it would appear that William WELSH acquired one of them, which may have been street number 10, before being broken down into small street frontage lots.

The following posts will be of some of the map / plan images I have gathered to come to the opinions expressed above. Further research is required.

Alan.

[Fresh Fields]

Sydenham Drainage plans of 1907 showing the current survey allotments.

This is free of copyright material.

Alan.

[Fresh Fields]

Retrolenz aerial photographs starting from 1940.

Sydenham CHCH zoomed in to 12 Hawdon Street overlay.  Shows street numbering, but I can not reconcile the numbers at scale with the actual photo images. At first glance I would want to suggest the WELSH property was number 14 as per overlay.

Alan.

[Fresh Fields]

Retrolens aerial photo of 1940

Hawdon St, Sydenham,  CHCH,

Alan.

[Fresh Fields]

opps, did not take.