chch.live a street, in depth

Southwark Street

220 reports at 27 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 121 separate days somebody filed something about it.

220 reports27 addresses121 days reported onfrom the air, then3 businessesthe 574th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

42 Southwark Street, 25 reports7 Southwark Street, 23 reports19 Southwark Street, 19 reports29 Southwark Street, 18 reports15 Southwark Street, 18 reports16 Southwark Street, 13 reports38 Southwark Street, 12 reports20 Southwark Street, 12 reports17 Southwark Street, 11 reports22 Southwark Street, 10 reports21 Southwark Street, 9 reports33 Southwark Street, 8 reports30 Southwark Street, 7 reports9 Southwark Street, 5 reports27 Southwark Street, 4 reports26 Southwark Street, 4 reports25 Southwark Street, 4 reports32 Southwark Street, 3 reports31 Southwark Street, 3 reports34 Southwark Street, 2 reports28 Southwark Street, 2 reports18 Southwark Street, 2 reports15/9 Southwark Street, 2 reports40 Southwark Street, 1 report22-16 Southwark Street, 1 report13 Southwark Street, 1 report1/9 Southwark Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

The businesses on it, 3

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

The named ground

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

Wilson Park ramp · 85 m away Wilson Park set of steps · 108 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Southwark Street in 4 crashes 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

Graffiti 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 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 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 photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoAccessibility, 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 Southwark Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Southwark Street?

220 reports at 27 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (168), roads & footpaths (28), water & drains (12).

When was Southwark Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 121 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

Every street the archive knows → · Christchurch Central City → · This street as a feed →