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Merrin Street

93 reports at 47 addresses in Avonhead, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 88 separate days somebody filed something about it.

93 reports47 addresses88 days reported onfrom the air, then5 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 787th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2 Merrin Street, 6 reports95 Merrin Street, 5 reports61 Merrin Street, 5 reports41 Merrin Street, 5 reports39 Merrin Street, 5 reports98 Merrin Street, 4 reports40A Merrin Street, 4 reports74 Merrin Street, 3 reports62 Merrin Street, 3 reports33A Merrin Street, 3 reports14 Merrin Street, 3 reports91B Merrin Street, 2 reports89E Merrin Street, 2 reports79 Merrin Street, 2 reports6 Merrin Street, 2 reports5A Merrin Street, 2 reports56 Merrin Street, 2 reports55 Merrin Street, 2 reports37 Merrin Street, 2 reports16B Merrin Street, 2 reports14A Merrin Street, 2 reports117 Merrin Street, 2 reports94A Merrin Street, 1 report94 Merrin Street, 1 report89 Merrin Street, 1 report87B Merrin Street, 1 report87 Merrin Street, 1 report78 Merrin Street, 1 report74A Merrin Street, 1 report73B Merrin Street, 1 report72-64 Merrin Street, 1 report65 Merrin Street, 1 report5 Merrin Street, 1 report49A Merrin Street, 1 report45 Merrin Street, 1 report43–45 Merrin Street, 1 report37A Merrin Street, 1 report33B Merrin Street, 1 report31A Merrin Street, 1 report22A Merrin Street, 1 report22 Merrin Street, 1 report20B Merrin Street, 1 report2/45 Merrin Street, 1 report115 Merrin Street, 1 report10B Merrin Street, 1 report104 Merrin Street, 1 report1 Merrin Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Merrin Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Merrin Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Merrin 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 Merrin Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Merrin Street in 29 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 7 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

Trees - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Avonhead wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Merrin Street?

In Avonhead, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Merrin Street?

93 reports at 47 addresses, most often water & drains (34), trees & parks (19), graffiti & vandalism (15).

When was Merrin Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 88 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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