Swift Street
7 reports at 7 addresses in Belfast, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 7 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Swift Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Belfast.
From the air, then
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
- 27 Swift Street, 1 report
- 25 Swift Street, 1 report
- 20 Swift Street, 1 report
- 18 Swift Street, 1 report
- 15 Swift Street, 1 report
- 11 Swift Street, 1 report
- 1 Swift Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 2 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 2 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 2 reports
- Trees & parks, 1 report
Year by year
- 2020, 1 report
- 2023, 1 report
- 2024, 3 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 7 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:
- LOCAL & GENERAL. (Otago Witness, 15 February 1900)
· Papers Past,
…verse but according to my informant the thing that touches her majesty most deeply is the swift strong spontaneous rallying of the colonies round the mother country in her hour of need in order to giv…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 04 July 1905)
· Papers Past,
…153 9746 wanted by respectable person and little boy furnished room for week or two apply swift star office 9741 wanted boarder single room piano bath every convenience washing mending done 114 montre…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 27 November 1906)
· Papers Past,
…with stretcher and mattress terms low baohelor wr 15 george street 7691 wanted sell gent swift strong machine perfect order sterling bar gainapply32 chester street 7682 wanted boardersi every conveni…
- TERRITORIAL SERVICE CALL-UP (Evening Post, 21 January 1942)
· Papers Past,
…hu swan arthur c 20a glenmore st swan henry 8 34 tamar st swift percy c 134 evans bay rd swift stuart 5 maire st woburn swindale hector n a 44 ross st syime john g 4 eagle st symes henry 0 9 waione s…
- New Zealand Transport Agency (Speed Limits on State Highways) Bylaw 2010/10
· New Zealand Gazette,
…t approximately 100 metres to the north-east of the intersection of State Highway 74 with Swift Street to a point approximately 170 metres to the south-west of the intersection of State Highway 74 wit…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Belfast, Christchurch, New Zealand.
7 reports at 7 addresses, most often water & drains (2), rubbish & dumping (2), graffiti & vandalism (2).
2020, the record covers 7 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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