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Daresbury Rookery, 67 Fendalton Road, Christchurch
Daresbury Rookery, 67 Fendalton Road, Christchurch
[ca. 1902]
This photograph shows Daresbury, a 50-room house on 25 acres, designed by S. Hurst Seager and built between 1897 and 1901 for George Humphreys (1848 or 9-1934), co-founder of the wine and spirits merchants Fletcher Humphries. Until 1945 the property was called Daresbury Rookery because of a colony of rooks that made its home in about 100 bluegums planted on the property in 1862 by Jane Deans. A snowstorm in 1945 damaged the trees and the rooks left
File Reference: CCL PhotoCD 10, IMG0030
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