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Twigger Street

40 reports at 7 addresses in Addington, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 35 separate days somebody filed something about it.

40 reports7 addresses35 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 1665th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

22 Twigger Street, 17 reports3 Twigger Street, 12 reports20 Twigger Street, 5 reports15 Twigger Street, 3 reports12 Twigger Street, 1 report11 Twigger Street, 1 report10 Twigger Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Twigger Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Twigger Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Twigger Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Twigger 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.

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Twigger Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Addington Sports Stadium & Gro shelter · 63 m away Rugby League Park boardwalk · 76 m away Rugby League Park boardwalk · 77 m away Addington Sports Stadium & Gro set of steps · 77 m away Rugby League Park boardwalk · 138 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Twigger 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, 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 Twigger Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Twigger Street?

40 reports at 7 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (14), water & drains (9), rubbish & dumping (8).

When was Twigger Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 35 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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