Another piece of our history disappears – 26 Endeavour Street
This cottage stood on the corner of Gilfillan Street and Endeavour Street.
Ten acres ran down from the corner of Gilfillan Street down Endeavour Street to Kinross Street in 1871 bought by land speculator Stephen Norris and sold on same day to George Foster, a ‘dealer’, who in 1881 sold the land to Margaret Johnson.
On 23 March 1886 Edward Brechon, of Onehunga, purchased the land and being a carpenter we have to assume he built the cottage. Although he does not appear in the next ten years on early directories as living in the Bay, these cottages were often used as holiday homes, the families would pack up and trek out to the Bay and stay for the summer.
