Hillview Road in the suburb of Phillipstown, Christchurch

Hillview Rd in Phillipstown – formerly Hills View Road. Hills View Road first appears in street directories in 1890.A tiny amount of information from the library website. The name of the street is fairly obvious as they would have had a good view of the Port Hills. I found more entries in Papers Past under Hill View Road rather than Hillview Road.In 1889 and 1891 there was talk of channelling work to be done on this street but they but have been slow at getting it done as there was a request in 1898 for channelling and asking the Education Board to share the cost of getting the work done.The earliest mention about the street that I could find was 1882 and it was about a missing dog. Two entries from 1940s and one was the Education Board asking for tenders to remove a residence and outbuildings from 17 Hillview Rd. In 1940 there was an obituary for Annie Jane Shaw who had died at the age of 86. She came to NZ in the ship Michelangelo in 1873 and had lived on Hillview Road for 64 years. I wonder if it was her house the Education Board wanted removed in 1941.I couldn’t find any mention of people living on this street after this date and this street now has businesses on one side and the Phillipstown Community Centre on the other side. The Phillipstown Community Centre is at the old Phillipstown school and there was a huge uproar when this school was closed a few years ago. The original school was opened 5th March 1877 and in the early 1880s there were a lot of talk about a drain that ran through the school. It was called Toom’s drain and Jackson’s Creek was mentioned. This drain and creek was a likely source of typhoid and there were many cases of typhoid in the area. Christchurch cemeteries are full of people who died from typhoid.