Raglan Street in the suburb of Phillipstown, Christchurch

Raglan Street in Phillipstown – Named in 1910

A tiny amount of information on the library website. There wasn’t much information on Papers Past for this street. There was a report from the Council recommending that the short street that ran between Cashel Street and Essex Street be named Raglan Street. There was another report with almost exactly the same wording dated 1924. There were a few death notices and a few personal ads. In 1926 the residents in Cashel Street requested a tram stop to be installed on Raglan Street. The street was flooded in 1987 when there was a ruptured water main on Cashel Street. The street is shown on the old map from 1912.

There are houses here but they aren’t on the valuation website so I suspect that they are social housing. The houses are only on the one side of the street. The other side of the street had a big section that seemed to belong to a building that was on Essex Street. There was a sign on a fence on Cashel Street that said Raglan Reserve. The council website said that it is a public park but it looked like a private property and there didn’t seem to be an entrance to this reserve.