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Chester St W

32 reports at 9 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2019. 24 separate days somebody filed something about it.

32 reports9 addresses24 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 2101st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

66 Chester St W, 18 reports55 Chester St W, 5 reports54 Chester St W, 2 reports35 Chester St W, 2 reports51 Chester St W, 1 report45 Chester St W, 1 report40 Chester St W, 1 report39-45 Chester St W, 1 report36 Chester St W, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Chester St W from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Chester St W from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Chester St W 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.

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 · 18 m away Ferrier Fountain lake · 45 m away Victoria Square ramp · 26 m away Victoria Square set of steps · 36 m away Victoria Square set of steps · 65 m away Victoria Square set of steps · 67 m away Victoria Square boardwalk · 118 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

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on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Chester St W?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Chester St W?

32 reports at 9 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (26), roads & footpaths (5), water & drains (1).

When was Chester St W first reported on?

2015, the record covers 24 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2019.

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