# 100 Armagh Street, Christchurch Central City 18 reports on record since December 2016 · 18 with photographs. https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/100-armagh-street ## What gets reported here - [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti), 6 - [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti), 3 - [Road Signage](https://www.chch.live/problems/road-damage), 2 - [Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti), 2 - [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/problems/water-leaks), 1 - [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/problems/stormwater), 1 ## Reported here - [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/report/5912743), 21 Feb 2025 - [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/5910368), 21 Feb 2025 - [Roads - General](https://www.chch.live/report/5820869), 5 Feb 2025 - [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/report/5426394), 18 Nov 2024 - [Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset](https://www.chch.live/report/5398844), 12 Nov 2024 - [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/report/5340941), 30 Oct 2024 - [Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset](https://www.chch.live/report/4847296), 4 Jul 2024 - [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/report/4603266), 30 Apr 2024 - [Road Signage](https://www.chch.live/report/4343853), 27 Feb 2024 - [Road Signage](https://www.chch.live/report/4217988), 31 Jan 2024 ## Photographed here (18 on record) - [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/report/5912743), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05912743/public/1_g92foouzb6o7.jpg - [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/5910368), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05910368/public/1_q0x196vbnym.jpg - [Roads - General](https://www.chch.live/report/5820869), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05820869/public/1_c7igevzzol9.jpg - [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/report/5426394), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05426394/public/1_bf1dg5nafkwp.jpg - [Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset](https://www.chch.live/report/5398844), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05398844/public/1_eop7p73eo3ug.jpg - [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/report/5340941), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05340941/public/1_abdyvithyta8.jpg - [Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset](https://www.chch.live/report/4847296), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04847296/public/1_fddciu8uj2oz.jpg - [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/report/4603266), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04603266/public/1_tl23wdpc1vns.jpg - [Road Signage](https://www.chch.live/report/4343853), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04343853/public/1_7k35cco9pdp8.jpg - [Road Signage](https://www.chch.live/report/4217988), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04217988/public/1_omdp0izje6b8.jpg - [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/4098102), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04098102/public/1_8ic38zkrfs42.jpg - [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/3993743), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/03993743/public/1_slnqc5rg4xch.jpg [More photographs on the Christchurch Central City wall](https://www.chch.live/wall?suburb=christchurch-central-city) ## Also reported on Armagh Street - [177 Armagh Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/177-armagh-street), 268 reports - [90 Armagh Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/90-armagh-street), 234 reports - [163 Armagh Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/163-armagh-street), 118 reports - [167 Armagh Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/167-armagh-street), 109 reports - [89 Armagh Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/89-armagh-street), 107 reports - [88 Armagh Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/88-armagh-street), 89 reports - [199 Armagh Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/199-armagh-street), 74 reports - [161 Armagh Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/161-armagh-street), 63 reports - [Armagh Street, the whole record](https://www.chch.live/street/christchurch-central-city/armagh-street) ## From the air, then - [1940-1944](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5288&lon=172.6355&decade=1940_1944), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ - [1970-1974](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5288&lon=172.6355&decade=1970_1974), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ - [1975-1979](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5288&lon=172.6355&decade=1975_1979), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ *Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Clean CC BY decades only; NZAM-covered spots stay out. [RetroLens](https://retrolens.co.nz/) holds more Crown aerials.* ## On the doorstep - [Ice Cream Charlie](https://www.chch.live/business/ice-cream-charlie-christchurch-central-city), 13 m away · Fast food - [Victoria Free House](https://www.chch.live/business/victoria-free-house-christchurch-central-city), 67 m away · Bars & pubs - [Te Pae Convention Centre](https://www.chch.live/business/te-pae-convention-centre-christchurch-central-city), 68 m away · Business - [The Victoria](https://www.chch.live/business/the-victoria-christchurch-central-city), 70 m away · Bars & pubs *Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.* ## The bus nearby - [Kilmore Street Town Hall](https://www.chch.live/buses?stop=54520), 240 m away · [route 1](https://www.chch.live/buses/1), [route 29](https://www.chch.live/buses/29), [route 95](https://www.chch.live/buses/95) - [Kilmore St near Manchester St](https://www.chch.live/buses?stop=53159), 314 m away · [route 1](https://www.chch.live/buses/1), [route 27](https://www.chch.live/buses/27), [route 29](https://www.chch.live/buses/29), [route 95](https://www.chch.live/buses/95) *The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.* ## The remembered names nearby - [Immigration Barracks Stood on This Site in the Early 1860s](https://www.chch.live/plaque/64929-victoria-square), 13 m away, “IMMIGRATION BARRACKS STOOD ON THIS SITE IN THE EARLY 1860s ...” · 2009 - [Gifted to the City by Estate of V.J. Wilkinson](https://www.chch.live/plaque/64927-victoria-square), 18 m away, “GIFTED TO THE CITY BY ESTATE OF V.J. WILKINSON (ICE CREAM CHARLIE)” · 2009 - [Quercus Palustris Planted to Mark the 50th Anniversary](https://www.chch.live/plaque/64924-victoria-square), 22 m away, “QUERCUS PALUSTRIS PLANTED TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHRISTCHURCH BEAUTIFYING ASS…” · 2009 *The plaque pins come from the register, a recorded spot, not a surveyed one. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques).* ## The street’s crash record NZTA’s record names Armagh Street in 86 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 13 seriously hurt, nobody killed. [The crashes it names, each one →](https://www.chch.live/crashes?road=armagh-street&suburb=christchurch-central-city) ## Renting nearby New bonds in Christchurch Central City ran about **$508 a week**, $42 below the city median of $550, [the suburb page keeps the rent record →](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city#s-living). ## The civic layer This ground votes in [Central ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/central), the [Papanui-Innes-Central community board](https://www.chch.live/boards/papanui-innes-central) is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at [/wards](https://www.chch.live/wards). ## What was here, Horse Watering Ramp and Setting *54 m away · located to ±7 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/305)* - On the register. Nothing researched here yet. ## What was here, Queen Victoria Statue/Canterbury Jubilee Memorial and Setting *63 m away · located to ±3 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/238)* - In July 1900 a memorial committee chaired by H. F. Wigram met in the city council chambers to decide how Canterbury’s fiftieth jubilee should be marked, weighing proposals that included completing the north transept of ChristChurch Cathedral and a jubilee home for incurable and chronic cases, before resolving to ballot members on the twenty-four schemes put forward., THE JUBILEE MEMORIAL (Star, 24 July 1900) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19000724.2.59), 1900-07-24T00:00:00.000Z - In August 1900 the committee adopted a scheme by the mayor, William Reece: a stone obelisk surmounted by a seated bronze figure of Queen Victoria, its base carrying bas-relief groups for the pioneers, the province’s industries and the sending forth of soldiers to South Africa, with a bronze tablet recording the foundation of the province., THE JUBILEE MEMORIAL (Star, 10 August 1900) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19000810.2.62), 1900-08-10T00:00:00.000Z - After Queen Victoria’s death in January 1901 the committee decided the memorial would be a statue of the late Queen, and ordered it from England while subscriptions stood at about £816 of the £2,000 estimated cost., JUBILEE MEMORIAL. (Star, 23 February 1901) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19010223.2.84), 1901-02-23T00:00:00.000Z - The public subscribed slowly: by April 1901 the committee was still about £600 short of the £2,000 estimate, the Ashburton Borough Council’s circulated list had gathered under twenty shillings, and a subscription list at the Farmers’ Co-operative Association had drawn a single shilling., JUBILEE MEMORIAL. (Star, 13 April 1901) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19010413.2.85), 1901-04-13T00:00:00.000Z - The Duke of Cornwall and York laid the memorial’s foundation stone on 22 June 1901 during the royal visit to Christchurch — the only ceremony that day — with mayor A. E. G. Rhodes handing him the trowel., THE ROYAL VISIT. ENTRY INTO CHRISTCHURCH. (Evening Post, 24 June 1901) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19010624.2.3), 1901-06-24T00:00:00.000Z - The memorial also stood as the province’s South African war memorial: its estimated cost covered the Queen’s statue and “the memorial to our soldiers who have fallen in South Africa”, and it was to carry the names of the Canterbury men who fell., JUBILEE MEMORIAL. (Star, 13 April 1901) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19010413.2.85), 1901-04-13T00:00:00.000Z - By April 1903 the statue was in position in Victoria Square, and the committee decided not to wait for the contingent panels still expected from England about 10 June, planning the unveiling before 24 May., Canterbury Jubilee Memorial. (Colonist, 22 April 1903) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC19030422.2.18.2), 1903-04-22T00:00:00.000Z - Mrs Wigram, wife of mayor H. F. Wigram, unveiled the memorial in Victoria Square on Empire Day, 25 May 1903, before a large crowd; the statue faces Victoria Street from a high pedestal above a grassed mound., EMPIRE DAY. (Star, 25 May 1903) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19030525.2.45), 1903-05-25T00:00:00.000Z - The subscription appeal ran in the Star week after week through March 1901, the committee publishing its running total — £911, then £939, £960, £1,007, £1,024, £1,032, £1,047 — as it inched toward the £2,000 estimate., JUBILEE MEMORIAL. (Star, 02 March 1901) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19010302.2.85), 1901-03-02T00:00:00.000Z - Written: [The Queen on the square](https://www.chch.live/article/the-queen-on-the-square) ## What was here, Armagh Street Bridge and Setting *64 m away · located to ±18 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/86)* - On the register. Nothing researched here yet. - Heritage New Zealand list entry: https://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/1830 ## What was here, Commercial Building and Setting, Former Cook and Ross *71 m away · 201/779 Colombo Street · located to ±13 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/45)* - On the register. Nothing researched here yet. - Heritage New Zealand list entry: https://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/7383 ## What was here, Captain James Cook Statue and Setting *83 m away · 89 Armagh Street · located to ±2 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/239)* - On the register. Nothing researched here yet. - Heritage New Zealand list entry: https://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/1860 ## The green nearby - [Victoria Square](https://www.chch.live/park/1066-victoria-square), 13 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha - [Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1068-canterbury-provincial-council-reserve), 71 m to the edge · Botanic - [Cathedral Square](https://www.chch.live/park/1431-cathedral-square), 212 m to the edge · Botanic - [Godley Statue Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1084-godley-statue-reserve), 223 m to the edge · Botanic - [Edmonds Band Rotunda](https://www.chch.live/park/1767-edmonds-band-rotunda), 238 m to the edge · Botanic *Within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data.* ## The civic shelf nearby - [Turanga Library](https://www.chch.live/facility/library-56), 203 m away · Library · Cathedral Square, Christchurch - [Aldersgate](https://www.chch.live/facility/car-park-32), 204 m away · Car park - [Armagh Street](https://www.chch.live/facility/car-park-34), 218 m away · Car park - [Civic Offices](https://www.chch.live/facility/council-office-8), 455 m away · Council office - [Triangle](https://www.chch.live/facility/car-park-33), 465 m away · Car park ## The tracks through here - [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-491-christchurch-central-city), 1 m to the line · walk · bike - [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-506-christchurch-central-city), 39 m to the line · walk · bike - [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-504-christchurch-central-city), 175 m to the line · walk · bike - [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-505-christchurch-central-city), 244 m to the line · walk · bike - [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-487-christchurch-central-city), 287 m to the line · walk · bike *Lines passing within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.* ## Questions, answered briefly **What has been reported at 100 Armagh Street?** 18 council reports on record since December 2016, most often graffiti (6), graffiti somewhere else (3), road signage (2). **Which suburb is 100 Armagh Street in?** Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on [Armagh Street](https://www.chch.live/street/christchurch-central-city/armagh-street). **What stood at 100 Armagh Street before?** The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, [Horse Watering Ramp and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/305), [Queen Victoria Statue/Canterbury Jubilee Memorial and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/238). **What is the nearest park to 100 Armagh Street?** [Victoria Square](https://www.chch.live/park/1066-victoria-square), 13 m to its edge, 2 ha. Data: https://api.chch.live/address?suburb=christchurch-central-city&address=100-armagh-street · Reports: https://api.chch.live/reports.rss?suburb=Christchurch%20Central%20City&street=armagh-street