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Chester St E

81 reports at 35 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2023. 64 separate days somebody filed something about it.

81 reports35 addresses64 days reported onfrom the air, then36 documents carry the namethe 1045th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

80 Chester St E, 11 reports80E Chester St E, 6 reports119 Chester St E, 5 reports142 Chester St E, 4 reports140 Chester St E, 4 reports129 Chester St E, 4 reports82 Chester St E, 3 reports149 Chester St E, 3 reports131 Chester St E, 3 reports117 Chester St E, 3 reports186 Chester St E, 2 reports177 Chester St E, 2 reports173 Chester St E, 2 reports160 Chester St E, 2 reports155 Chester St E, 2 reports148 Chester St E, 2 reports139 Chester St E, 2 reports125 Chester St E, 2 reports123 Chester St E, 2 reports115 Chester St E, 2 reports88-90 Chester St E, 1 report88 Chester St E, 1 report87 Chester St E, 1 report79 Chester St E, 1 report76 Chester St E, 1 report74 Chester St E, 1 report192 Chester St E, 1 report166-168 Chester St E, 1 report141-143 Chester St E, 1 report138-140 Chester St E, 1 report137-139 Chester St E, 1 report130 Chester St E, 1 report125A Chester St E, 1 report118 Chester St E, 1 report114 Chester St E, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Chester St E, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Christchurch Central City.

From the air, then

Chester St E from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Chester St E from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Chester St E from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Chester St E 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. 36 on the shelf; the 12 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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 28 m away Chesterfields shelter · 18 m away Margaret Mahy Family Playgroun shelter · 32 m away Addington Sports Stadium & Gro shelter · 32 m away Fire Fighters Reserve set of steps · 55 m away Margaret Mahy Family Playgroun shelter · 62 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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

Rubbish/Recycling, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Chester St E?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Chester St E?

81 reports at 35 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (36), roads & footpaths (28), water & drains (6).

When was Chester St E first reported on?

2015, the record covers 64 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2023.

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