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Melrose Street

85 reports at 24 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 75 separate days somebody filed something about it.

85 reports24 addresses75 days reported onfrom the air, then50 documents carry the namethe 927th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

24 Melrose Street, 17 reports3 Melrose Street, 10 reports20 Melrose Street, 7 reports4 Melrose Street, 5 reports34 Melrose Street, 5 reports25 Melrose Street, 5 reports22 Melrose Street, 4 reports36 Melrose Street, 3 reports35 Melrose Street, 3 reports30C Melrose Street, 3 reports29 Melrose Street, 3 reports17 Melrose Street, 3 reports14 Melrose Street, 3 reports8 Melrose Street, 2 reports37 Melrose Street, 2 reports33 Melrose Street, 2 reports39 Melrose Street, 1 report38 Melrose Street, 1 report33C Melrose Street, 1 report33A Melrose Street, 1 report32 Melrose Street, 1 report27 Melrose Street, 1 report23 Melrose Street, 1 report16 Melrose Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 50 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Moa Reserve shelter · 16 m away Barbadoes Cemetery shelter · 126 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Melrose Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Melrose Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Melrose Street?

85 reports at 24 addresses, most often water & drains (22), graffiti & vandalism (20), rubbish & dumping (16).

When was Melrose Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 75 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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