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110 Armagh Street, Christchurch Central City

40 reports on record since May 2018 · 31 with photographs. The street’s heaviest record is 177 Armagh Street — 267 reports on file. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.

What gets reported here

Photographed here 31 on record

Reported here

Also reported on Armagh Street

Armagh Street, the whole record →

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 →

The green nearby

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.

The civic shelf nearby

Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre — the council’s open data.

On the doorstep

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, measured to the line itself — the council’s open data.

The named ground

Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register — bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby — the open map’s record.

The remembered names nearby

Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres — the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.

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 →.

What was here — Commercial Building and Setting, Former Cook and Ross

21 m away · 201/779 Colombo Street · located to ±13 m · the place’s own record →

On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

Heritage New Zealand list entry →

What was here — Queen Victoria Statue/Canterbury Jubilee Memorial and Setting

33 m away · located to ±3 m · the place’s own record →

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) · · National Library of New Zealand

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) · · National Library of New Zealand

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) · · National Library of New Zealand

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) · · National Library of New Zealand

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) · · National Library of New Zealand

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) · · National Library of New Zealand

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) · · National Library of New Zealand

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) · · National Library of New Zealand

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) · · National Library of New Zealand

The Queen on the square →

What was here — K2 Telephone Box and Setting

51 m away · located to ±1 m · the place’s own record →

On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

What was here — Bowker Fountain and Setting

77 m away · located to ±13 m · the place’s own record →

On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

What was here — Captain James Cook Statue and Setting

100 m away · 89 Armagh Street · located to ±2 m · the place’s own record →

On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

Heritage New Zealand list entry →

The civic layer

This ground votes in Central ward — the Papanui-Innes-Central community board. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre.

What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air — the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address on RetroLens →

Questions, answered briefly

What has been reported at 110 Armagh Street?

40 council reports on record since May 2018 — most often graffiti somewhere else (10), graffiti (10), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (4).

Which suburb is 110 Armagh Street in?

Christchurch Central City, Christchurch — on Armagh Street.

What stood at 110 Armagh Street before?

The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it — Commercial Building and Setting, Former Cook and Ross, Queen Victoria Statue/Canterbury Jubilee Memorial and Setting.

What is the nearest park to 110 Armagh Street?

Victoria Square — 5 m to its edge, 2 ha.

Everything about Christchurch Central City →