Cadogan Street in the suburb of Sydenham, Christchurch

Cadogan Street in Sydenham – Named after William Cadogan, 1st Earl of Cadogan (1675- 1726).Cadogan was a British soldier and parliamentarian. First mentioned in the Star in a report of a meeting of the Sydenham Borough Council in 1886. First appears in street directories in 1887.A small amount of information from the library website and I couldn’t find any other information about the name of the street except that it is a Welsh name. In 1897 it was noted that they couldn’t asphalt the footpath until the houses on the other side of the street were built. In 1904 and 1905 the street was extended to meet up with Huxley St. Mostly birth and death notices in Papers Past plus a case of polio in 1925. There are 22 properties on this street and several were built in 1905 and 1910. These were mostly between Brougham St and Hastings St. Between Hastings St and Walton St there were flats built in 1970s and 1980s. There is a wee park at the end of the street where you can walk through to Huxley St. I did like this street and most of the older houses looked lovely. There was one that had been spoiled by unsympathetic modernising. It was very quiet early on a Sunday morning.