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Princess Street

73 reports at 18 addresses in Addington, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 49 separate days somebody filed something about it.

73 reports18 addresses49 days reported onfrom the air, then125 documents carry the namethe 1307th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

12 Princess Street, 15 reports14 Princess Street, 9 reports20 Princess Street, 7 reports35 Princess Street, 6 reports26 Princess Street, 6 reports4/12 Princess Street, 5 reports39 Princess Street, 4 reports18 Princess Street, 4 reports33 Princess Street, 3 reports37 Princess Street, 2 reports3/12 Princess Street, 2 reports24 Princess Street, 2 reports16B Princess Street, 2 reports16 Princess Street, 2 reports52 Princess Street, 1 report34-24 Princess Street, 1 report28-34 Princess Street, 1 report1/12 Princess Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Princess Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Princess Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Princess Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Princess 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. 125 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Princess Street in 8 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Princess Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Princess Street?

73 reports at 18 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (55), water & drains (8), vehicles & parking (3).

When was Princess Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 49 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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