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Chester Street

7 reports at 6 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2016, the latest 2020. 7 separate days somebody filed something about it.

7 reports6 addresses7 days reported on7 on the registerfrom the air, then1,348 documents carry the namethe 3665th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

26 Chester Street, 2 reports28 Chester Street, 1 report2 Chester Street, 1 report16 Chester Street, 1 report10 Chester Street, 1 report1-3 Chester Street, 1 reportDwellings and Setting: registerDwellings and Setting: registerFloral Clock and Setting: registerFormer Boiler House and Setting: registerFormer Church of St Luke the Evangelist Bell Tower and Setting: registerFormer Dwelling and Setting, Holly Lea/McLean's Mansion: registerShands Emporium: Former Commercial Building: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Chester Street, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Christchurch Central City.

From the air, then

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

On the register

On foot, Belfries and chapels walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 1,348 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 open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 78 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Chester Street in 11 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 0 seriously hurt.

The crashes it names, each one →

Heard on the wire

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

As it was reported

Roading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoWater Supply, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoGraffiti, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Chester Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Chester Street?

7 reports at 6 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (5), water & drains (1), graffiti & vandalism (1).

When was Chester Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 7 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2020.

What heritage places are on Chester Street?

Dwellings and Setting, Dwellings and Setting, Floral Clock and Setting, 4 more on the register.

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