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Hockey Street

48 reports at 18 addresses in Bishopdale, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 47 separate days somebody filed something about it.

48 reports18 addresses47 days reported onfrom the air, then41 documents carry the namethe 1347th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

36 Hockey Street, 9 reports30 Hockey Street, 6 reports6 Hockey Street, 5 reports28 Hockey Street, 4 reports50 Hockey Street, 3 reports39 Hockey Street, 3 reports33 Hockey Street, 3 reports2 Hockey Street, 3 reports5 Hockey Street, 2 reports19 Hockey Street, 2 reports7 Hockey Street, 1 report40 Hockey Street, 1 report29 Hockey Street, 1 report26 Hockey Street, 1 report25 Hockey Street, 1 report22 Hockey Street, 1 report1A Hockey Street, 1 report1 Hockey Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Hockey Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hockey Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hockey 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. 41 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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.

Wairakei Reserve footbridge · 147 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hockey Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Playground Equipment, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoTrees - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Bishopdale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Hockey Street?

In Bishopdale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Hockey Street?

48 reports at 18 addresses, most often trees & parks (17), water & drains (12), rubbish & dumping (9).

When was Hockey Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 47 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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