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Gloucester Street

105 reports at 34 addresses in Avonside, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 75 separate days somebody filed something about it.

105 reports34 addresses75 days reported onfrom the air, thenthen / now2,674 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 923rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

714 Gloucester Street, 13 reports724 Gloucester Street, 10 reports713 Gloucester Street, 9 reports784 Gloucester Street, 8 reports764 Gloucester Street, 8 reports746 Gloucester Street, 6 reports778B Gloucester Street, 5 reports726 Gloucester Street, 5 reports711 Gloucester Street, 4 reports778A Gloucester Street, 3 reports762 Gloucester Street, 3 reports748 Gloucester Street, 3 reports780 Gloucester Street, 2 reports738 Gloucester Street, 2 reports730 Gloucester Street, 2 reports728 Gloucester Street, 2 reports724-726 Gloucester Street, 2 reports715 Gloucester Street, 2 reports766 Gloucester Street, 1 report763 Gloucester Street, 1 report758 Gloucester Street, 1 report751 Gloucester Street, 1 report747 Gloucester Street, 1 report745 Gloucester Street, 1 report743 Gloucester Street, 1 report742 Gloucester Street, 1 report741 Gloucester Street, 1 report734 Gloucester Street, 1 report733 Gloucester Street, 1 report731 Gloucester Street, 1 report723 Gloucester Street, 1 report721 Gloucester Street, 1 report719 Gloucester Street, 1 report717 Gloucester Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Gloucester Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Gloucester Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Gloucester 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 →

Then and now

Photograph: Mr Luck's House, Gloucester Street, Christchurch 1860
Then, 1860 · Photograph: Mr Luck's House, Gloucester Street, Christchurch 1860
Now: Google Street View, 2025-02

The photograph names Gloucester Street in its title and its copy is hosted under the source record’s stated rights, it opens that record. The frame is the street as it stands, the pose the QC bank verified (outside Glamour Nail & Eyelashes). The whole collection, oldest first →

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. 2,674 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 65 m away Woodham Park ramp · 61 m away Woodham Park shelter · 66 m away Avon Corridor 5 Rrz Land set of steps · 98 m away Avon Riverbank True Left set of steps · 112 m away Avon Corridor 5 Rrz Land boardwalk · 122 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Gloucester Street in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Fitzgerald Avenue & Gloucester Street, 48 crashes pinned to the pairing, 1 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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

Water Leak, 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 traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 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 photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater General, a report photo more photographs
on the Avonside wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Gloucester Street?

In Avonside, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Gloucester Street?

105 reports at 34 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (84), rubbish & dumping (5), water & drains (4).

When was Gloucester Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 75 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Gloucester Street?

Fitzgerald Avenue and Gloucester Street, 48 police-reported crashes at the pairing, 1 of them fatal.

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