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Murdoch Street

22 reports at 12 addresses in Bryndwr, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 21 separate days somebody filed something about it.

22 reports12 addresses21 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the namethe 2252nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

12 Murdoch Street, 7 reports8 Murdoch Street, 3 reports5 Murdoch Street, 2 reports14 Murdoch Street, 2 reports9 Murdoch Street, 1 report2–14 Murdoch Street, 1 report2A Murdoch Street, 1 report2 Murdoch Street, 1 report16 Murdoch Street, 1 report15 Murdoch Street, 1 report11 Murdoch Street, 1 report10 Murdoch Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Murdoch Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Murdoch Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Murdoch Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Murdoch 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. 4 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Murdoch Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Murdoch Street?

In Bryndwr, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Murdoch Street?

22 reports at 12 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (6), water & drains (5), graffiti & vandalism (5).

When was Murdoch Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 21 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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