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Sefton Street

31 reports at 15 addresses in Belfast, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 30 separate days somebody filed something about it.

31 reports15 addresses30 days reported onfrom the air, then27 documents carry the namethe 1835th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

41 Sefton Street, 5 reports36 Sefton Street, 4 reports49 Sefton Street, 3 reports43 Sefton Street, 3 reports24 Sefton Street, 3 reports52 Sefton Street, 2 reports39 Sefton Street, 2 reports14 Sefton Street, 2 reports51 Sefton Street, 1 report45 Sefton Street, 1 report40 Sefton Street, 1 report27 Sefton Street, 1 report22 Sefton Street, 1 report10B Sefton Street, 1 report10 Sefton Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Sefton Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Sefton Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Sefton Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Sefton 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. 27 on the shelf; the 8 earliest:

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

Kā Pūtahi stream · 3 m away Tisch Reserve footbridge · 5 m away

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

Pavement - Damaged, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photoPest / Vermin, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoFlooding, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photo more photographs
on the Belfast wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Sefton Street?

In Belfast, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Sefton Street?

31 reports at 15 addresses, most often trees & parks (12), water & drains (10), roads & footpaths (5).

When was Sefton Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 30 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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