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Durham Street North

774 reports at 104 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 489 separate days somebody filed something about it.

774 reports104 addresses489 days reported on3 on the registerfrom the air, then440 documents carry the name6 businessesthe 53rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

329 Durham Street North, 55 reports287 Durham Street North, 47 reports398 Durham Street North, 37 reports380 Durham Street North, 34 reports423 Durham Street North, 28 reports280 Durham Street North, 28 reports414 Durham Street North, 25 reports378 Durham Street North, 23 reports335 Durham Street North, 23 reports322 Durham Street North, 23 reports312 Durham Street North, 23 reports375 Durham Street North, 22 reports410 Durham Street North, 20 reports364 Durham Street North, 20 reports328 Durham Street North, 18 reports359 Durham Street North, 16 reports354 Durham Street North, 15 reports405 Durham Street North, 13 reports295 Durham Street North, 13 reports290 Durham Street North, 12 reports1/340 Durham Street North, 12 reports416 Durham Street North, 11 reports368 Durham Street North, 11 reports376 Durham Street North, 10 reports332 Durham Street North, 10 reports282 Durham Street North, 9 reports418 Durham Street North, 8 reports395 Durham Street North, 8 reports309 Durham Street North, 8 reports297 Durham Street North, 8 reports373 Durham Street North, 7 reports350 Durham Street North, 7 reports336 Durham Street North, 7 reports299A Durham Street North, 7 reports284 Durham Street North, 7 reports431 Durham Street North, 6 reports360 Durham Street North, 6 reports293 Durham Street North, 6 reports425 Durham Street North, 5 reports400 Durham Street North, 5 reports387 Durham Street North, 5 reports377 Durham Street North, 5 reports323E Durham Street North, 5 reports292 Durham Street North, 5 reports421 Durham Street North, 4 reports406 Durham Street North, 4 reports383 Durham Street North, 4 reports340 Durham Street North, 4 reports299 Durham Street North, 4 reports280A Durham Street North, 4 reports435 Durham Street North, 3 reports407 Durham Street North, 3 reports344 Durham Street North, 3 reports338 Durham Street North, 3 reports319-335 Durham Street North, 3 reports307 Durham Street North, 3 reports287-293 Durham Street North, 3 reports272 Durham Street North, 3 reports403 Durham Street North, 2 reports381 Durham Street North, 2 reports323 Durham Street North, 2 reports306 Durham Street North, 2 reports294 Durham Street North, 2 reports292-310 Durham Street North, 2 reports289 Durham Street North, 2 reports429 Durham Street North, 1 report425-435 Durham Street North, 1 report414-418 Durham Street North, 1 report413-423 Durham Street North, 1 report411 Durham Street North, 1 report402 Durham Street North, 1 report396 Durham Street North, 1 report372 Durham Street North, 1 report371 Durham Street North, 1 report370 Durham Street North, 1 report368A Durham Street North, 1 report367 Durham Street North, 1 report365 Durham Street North, 1 report362 Durham Street North, 1 report355 Durham Street North, 1 report354-360 Durham Street North, 1 report352 Durham Street North, 1 report351 Durham Street North, 1 report348 Durham Street North, 1 report340E Durham Street North, 1 report333 Durham Street North, 1 report331 Durham Street North, 1 report327 Durham Street North, 1 report325 Durham Street North, 1 report324 Durham Street North, 1 report319 Durham Street North, 1 report318 Durham Street North, 1 report317 Durham Street North, 1 report314-322 Durham Street North, 1 report310-292 Durham Street North, 1 report307-309 Durham Street North, 1 report303 Durham Street North, 1 report302-292 Durham Street North, 1 report298 Durham Street North, 1 report288 Durham Street North, 1 report285 Durham Street North, 1 report282C Durham Street North, 1 report282-284 Durham Street North, 1 report17/400 Durham Street North, 1 reportArmagh Street Kerbstones and Setting: registerCanterbury Provincial Council Buildings: registerCanterbury Provincial Council Buildings Courtyard/Grounds: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Durham Street North, 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

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

and the other 44 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

On foot, The city’s stones walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 440 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 6

Premises whose address in the directory is Durham Street North, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 26 m away Ferrier Fountain lake · 96 m away Mill Island island · 69 m away Rhododendron Island island · 310 m away Avon Riverbank Central City set of steps · 11 m away Avon Riverbank Central City ramp · 19 m away Avon Riverbank Central City set of steps · 28 m away Avon Riverbank Central City set of steps · 29 m away Victoria Square ramp · 41 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Durham Street North in 24 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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

Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Durham Street North?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Durham Street North?

774 reports at 104 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (456), roads & footpaths (132), water & drains (75).

When was Durham Street North first reported on?

2015, the record covers 489 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Durham Street North?

Armagh Street Kerbstones and Setting, Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings, Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings Courtyard/Grounds.

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