Newcastle Street in Phillipstown – Named after Newcastle, a city in north-east England. Named by John Alexander Redpath (1846?-1942) in 1909 when he subdivided his land there and laid out the new streets. His land in “Tuam Street, Linwood” is referred to in the Star in 1887. He founded the firm of J A Redpath & Sons Ltd., coal merchants. First appears in street directories in 1913.
A small amount of information from the library website. I covered John Alexander Redpath fully in my write up for Glasgow St. Not much information on Papers Past. There were birth and death notices plus there was a bird breeder on the street in 1940s and 1950s.
There is one house here from 1905 and 12 houses from 1910. Quite a few houses from the 1990s plus later decades. Most of the older houses are in reasonable condition but sadly I suspect that they will gradually be demolished and replaced with boring modern multi dwellings.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 