Family History 1.108

 

St Leonard’s Road, Mt Eden

 

The last house Noel lived in was this 1930s structure near the south-eastern boundary of the Mt Eden Borough. St Leonard’s Road runs from Mt Eden Road to St Andrew’s Road, between Watling Street and Landscape Road. 

It is a long way from any shopping centre, when you think that Mary did not drive, but in those days there was a dairy on the corner of Empire Road and St Andrew’s Road, in reasonable walking distance.

 

 

Below the house, in the valley was a reserve area which stretches through to Watling Street.  All around were houses of similar age or older. 

The house was very high at the back with a basement.  Kitchen and dining room were in this back area, with a lounge immediately in front of the dining room.  Bedrooms were in the front of these rooms, with a glassed porch on the front left as you looked at the house from the road. 

Like Grange Road, the front door was straight off the driveway on the right hand side of the house. Most of the section was at the back in the hollow.  There was a drive running down the right hand side of the section to a large single garage beyond the house.