{"id":615220,"date":"2026-09-29T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615220\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:22:09","slug":"napier-resident-ken-thorn-turns-100-living-on-the-same-street-he-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615220\/","title":{"rendered":"Napier resident Ken Thorn turns 100 &#8211; living on the same street he named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hpOlKwBYihZVaqvGc\" style=\"display:none\">His father hailed from London, and he said it was a way to recognise his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hpOlKwBYihZVaqvGc\" style=\"display:none\">Ken moved to Hawke\u2019s Bay from the Hutt Valley with his wife Bev and their two young sons around 1969. <\/p>\n<p class=\"hpOlKwBYihZVaqvGc\" style=\"display:none\">He joined Pat Dagg and Peter Weston in a surveying partnership.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" Ken Thorn was a prominent surveyor and involved in the Knightsbridge subdivision project. He worked until he was 97.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Ken Thorn was a prominent surveyor and involved in the Knightsbridge subdivision project. He worked until he was 97.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hpOlKwBYihZVaqvGc\" style=\"display:none\">He moved to Knightsbridge about 25 years ago, and continued working from home well into his 90s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hpOlKwBYihZVaqvGc\" style=\"display:none\">He now lives at Radius Hampton Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hpOlKwBYihZVaqvGc\" style=\"display:none\">Ken has three children, one daughter and two sons, five grandchildren and four great grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hpOlKwBYihZVaqvGc\" style=\"display:none\">He celebrated with family and friends with a party on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His father hailed from London, and he said it was a way to recognise his family. Ken moved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3548,115924,6325,7573,2109,692,57422,4188,10136,3607,111,139,69,90,10710,4514,213,5424,223,145340,32951,6123,102],"class_list":["post-615220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-3548","tag-100th","tag-birthday","tag-celebrated","tag-family","tag-he","tag-ken","tag-living","tag-named","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-resident","tag-same","tag-sports","tag-street","tag-the","tag-thorn","tag-turns","tag-while","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}