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Pope Street

133 reports at 12 addresses in Addington, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 101 separate days somebody filed something about it.

133 reports12 addresses101 days reported onfrom the air, then19 documents carry the namethe 691st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

6a Pope Street, 86 reports6e Pope Street, 13 reports12B Pope Street, 8 reports6 Pope Street, 6 reports7B Pope Street, 5 reports7 Pope Street, 5 reports3 Pope Street, 4 reports6E Pope Street, 2 reports5 Pope Street, 1 report3A Pope Street, 1 report14 Pope Street, 1 report12C Pope Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Pope Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Pope Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Pope Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Pope 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. 19 on the shelf; the 7 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin, the open map’s record.

The Old Stock Yards ruin · 185 m away

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

Water Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Pope Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Pope Street?

133 reports at 12 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (85), roads & footpaths (19), rubbish & dumping (15).

When was Pope Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 101 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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