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Darroch Street

16 reports at 10 addresses in Belfast, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 16 separate days somebody filed something about it.

16 reports10 addresses16 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 2605th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

80F Darroch Street, 3 reports80 Darroch Street, 2 reports40 Darroch Street, 2 reports26 Darroch Street, 2 reports2 Darroch Street, 2 reports9A Darroch Street, 1 report43 Darroch Street, 1 report27A Darroch Street, 1 report16 Darroch Street, 1 report12D Darroch Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Darroch Street in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 1 seriously hurt.

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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Darroch Street?

In Belfast, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Darroch Street?

16 reports at 10 addresses, most often trees & parks (7), roads & footpaths (4), water & drains (1).

When was Darroch Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 16 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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