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Dickens Street

151 reports at 38 addresses in Addington, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 120 separate days somebody filed something about it.

151 reports38 addresses120 days reported onfrom the air, then36 documents carry the namethe 576th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

26 Dickens Street, 18 reports28 Dickens Street, 17 reports44 Dickens Street, 9 reports32 Dickens Street, 9 reports23 Dickens Street, 8 reports48 Dickens Street, 7 reports48A Dickens Street, 6 reports22 Dickens Street, 6 reports21A Dickens Street, 6 reports15 Dickens Street, 6 reports14 Dickens Street, 6 reports30 Dickens Street, 5 reports24 Dickens Street, 5 reports27 Dickens Street, 4 reports17 Dickens Street, 4 reports42 Dickens Street, 3 reports34 Dickens Street, 3 reports17A Dickens Street, 3 reports8 Dickens Street, 2 reports47 Dickens Street, 2 reports39 Dickens Street, 2 reports38 Dickens Street, 2 reports36 Dickens Street, 2 reports20 Dickens Street, 2 reports8A Dickens Street, 1 report7–17 Dickens Street, 1 report7 Dickens Street, 1 report48B Dickens Street, 1 report48-26 Dickens Street, 1 report46 Dickens Street, 1 report45 Dickens Street, 1 report35–45 Dickens Street, 1 report35 Dickens Street, 1 report33 Dickens Street, 1 report29 Dickens Street, 1 report21 Dickens Street, 1 report12 Dickens Street, 1 report1/7 Dickens Street, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Dickens Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Addington.

From the air, then

Dickens Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dickens Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dickens Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dickens Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 36 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 136 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Dickens Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

Road Signage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Dickens Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Dickens Street?

151 reports at 38 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (51), roads & footpaths (31), graffiti & vandalism (28).

When was Dickens Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 120 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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