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High Street

1,025 reports at 123 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 559 separate days somebody filed something about it.

1,025 reports123 addresses559 days reported on11 on the registerfrom the air, thenthen / now5,982 documents carry the name54 businessesthe 36th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

146 High Street, 57 reports285 High Street, 42 reports188 High Street, 42 reports291F High Street, 35 reports181 High Street, 34 reports216 High Street, 29 reports269 High Street, 26 reports250 High Street, 26 reports282 High Street, 24 reports231 High Street, 24 reports217 High Street, 23 reports130 High Street, 22 reports226 High Street, 20 reports220F High Street, 18 reports215F High Street, 18 reports185 High Street, 18 reports158 High Street, 18 reports154A High Street, 18 reports144 High Street, 18 reports189F High Street, 16 reports222 High Street, 15 reports243 High Street, 13 reports200 High Street, 13 reports172 High Street, 13 reports241 High Street, 12 reports150 High Street, 12 reports129 High Street, 12 reports11/181 High Street, 12 reports202 High Street, 11 reports161 High Street, 11 reports263 High Street, 10 reports199 High Street, 10 reports177 High Street, 10 reports167 High Street, 10 reports246 High Street, 9 reports191 High Street, 9 reports178 High Street, 9 reports5/177 High Street, 8 reports265 High Street, 8 reports240 High Street, 8 reports237 High Street, 8 reports211F High Street, 8 reports211 High Street, 8 reports176 High Street, 8 reports174 High Street, 8 reports170 High Street, 8 reports159 High Street, 8 reports105 High Street, 8 reports267 High Street, 7 reports164 High Street, 7 reports163 High Street, 7 reports1/129 High Street, 7 reports239 High Street, 6 reports235 High Street, 6 reports225 High Street, 6 reports205 High Street, 6 reports147 High Street, 6 reports278 High Street, 5 reports236 High Street, 5 reports186 High Street, 5 reports162 High Street, 5 reports139 High Street, 5 reports279 High Street, 4 reports238 High Street, 4 reports227 High Street, 4 reports170B High Street, 4 reports169 High Street, 4 reports157 High Street, 4 reports149A High Street, 4 reports143 High Street, 4 reports141 High Street, 4 reports71b High Street, 3 reports266 High Street, 3 reports261F High Street, 3 reports254 High Street, 3 reports230 High Street, 3 reports227B High Street, 3 reports220 High Street, 3 reports219A High Street, 3 reports203/237 High Street, 3 reports198 High Street, 3 reports180 High Street, 3 reports165 High Street, 3 reports155 High Street, 3 reports135 High Street, 3 reports1/181 High Street, 3 reports303 High Street, 2 reports276 High Street, 2 reports268 High Street, 2 reports264 High Street, 2 reports229 High Street, 2 reports227b High Street, 2 reports223 High Street, 2 reports219-243 High Street, 2 reports214 High Street, 2 reports209 High Street, 2 reports189 High Street, 2 reports179 High Street, 2 reports173 High Street, 2 reports154 High Street, 2 reports153 High Street, 2 reports145 High Street, 2 reports132 High Street, 2 reports9 High Street, 1 report240-246 High Street, 1 report234 High Street, 1 report233 High Street, 1 report219-223 High Street, 1 report215 High Street, 1 report207 High Street, 1 report203 High Street, 1 report201 High Street, 1 report198–200 High Street, 1 report192F High Street, 1 report171 High Street, 1 report156 High Street, 1 report151 High Street, 1 report142–144 High Street, 1 report138 High Street, 1 report136 High Street, 1 report129-181 High Street, 1 report124 High Street, 1 report120 High Street, 1 reportCommercial Building Façade and Setting: registerCommercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A J Whites: registerCommercial Building and Setting: registerCommercial Building and Setting, Former C F Cotter and Company: registerCommercial Building and Setting. Duncan's Buildings: registerTriangle Reserve and Setting: registerTriangle Reserve and Setting: registerTriangle Reserve and Setting: registerTriangle Reserve and Setting: registerTriangle Reserve and Setting: registerTriangle Reserve and Setting: register

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

High Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
High Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
High Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
High 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 →

Then and now

201 High Street
Then, 2004 · 201 High Street
Now: Google Street View, 2024-06

The photograph names High Street in its title and its copy is hosted under the source record’s stated rights, it opens that record. The frame is the street as it stands, the pose the QC bank verified (outside Base Woodfired Pizza). The whole collection, oldest first →

The addresses on it

and the other 63 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

On foot, The old high street walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 5,982 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 54

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

…and 42 more whose address names it.

The named ground

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.

Mill Island island · 260 m away Evolution Square & Cotters Lan set of steps · 43 m away Rauora Park boardwalk · 44 m away unnamed footbridge · 47 m away Wilson Park ramp · 57 m away Rauora Park boardwalk · 64 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names High Street in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.

Heard on the wire

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

As it was reported

Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoAnimal - Deceased, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is High Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on High Street?

1,025 reports at 123 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (733), roads & footpaths (143), rubbish & dumping (53).

When was High Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 559 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on High Street?

Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A J Whites, Commercial Building and Setting, 8 more on the register.

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