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St Asaph Street

176 reports at 87 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2025. 122 separate days somebody filed something about it.

176 reports87 addresses122 days reported on3 on the registerfrom the air, thenthen / now1,710 documents carry the name41 businessesthe 569th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

56 St Asaph Street, 6 reports270 St Asaph Street, 6 reports358 St Asaph Street, 5 reports319 St Asaph Street, 5 reports164 St Asaph Street, 5 reports351 St Asaph Street, 4 reports339 St Asaph Street, 4 reports337 St Asaph Street, 4 reports256 St Asaph Street, 4 reports248 St Asaph Street, 4 reports240 St Asaph Street, 4 reports173 St Asaph Street, 4 reports360 St Asaph Street, 3 reports336 St Asaph Street, 3 reports312 St Asaph Street, 3 reports309 St Asaph Street, 3 reports307 St Asaph Street, 3 reports285 St Asaph Street, 3 reports272-280 St Asaph Street, 3 reports257 St Asaph Street, 3 reports245 St Asaph Street, 3 reports227 St Asaph Street, 3 reports207 St Asaph Street, 3 reports187 St Asaph Street, 3 reports168 St Asaph Street, 3 reports107 St Asaph Street, 3 reports58 St Asaph Street, 2 reports371 St Asaph Street, 2 reports33 St Asaph Street, 2 reports324-328 St Asaph Street, 2 reports314 St Asaph Street, 2 reports263-265 St Asaph Street, 2 reports244 St Asaph Street, 2 reports231-243 St Asaph Street, 2 reports216 St Asaph Street, 2 reports215 St Asaph Street, 2 reports21 St Asaph Street, 2 reports204 St Asaph Street, 2 reports202 St Asaph Street, 2 reports190 St Asaph Street, 2 reports184 St Asaph Street, 2 reports17 St Asaph Street, 2 reports148 St Asaph Street, 2 reports105 St Asaph Street, 2 reports69a St Asaph Street, 1 report69 St Asaph Street, 1 report411 St Asaph Street, 1 report41 St Asaph Street, 1 report368 St Asaph Street, 1 report363 St Asaph Street, 1 report362 St Asaph Street, 1 report359 St Asaph Street, 1 report357-359 St Asaph Street, 1 report354 St Asaph Street, 1 report345 St Asaph Street, 1 report343-347 St Asaph Street, 1 report340 St Asaph Street, 1 report322 St Asaph Street, 1 report312-314 St Asaph Street, 1 report311 St Asaph Street, 1 report310 St Asaph Street, 1 report30-36 St Asaph Street, 1 report295 St Asaph Street, 1 report283 St Asaph Street, 1 report26 St Asaph Street, 1 report256-258 St Asaph Street, 1 report249 St Asaph Street, 1 report243 St Asaph Street, 1 report24 St Asaph Street, 1 report224 St Asaph Street, 1 report220-222 St Asaph Street, 1 report220 St Asaph Street, 1 report213 St Asaph Street, 1 report210 St Asaph Street, 1 report193 St Asaph Street, 1 report192 St Asaph Street, 1 report19 St Asaph Street, 1 report188 St Asaph Street, 1 report186 St Asaph Street, 1 report178 St Asaph Street, 1 report174 St Asaph Street, 1 report171 St Asaph Street, 1 report165 St Asaph Street, 1 report16 St Asaph Street, 1 report144 St Asaph Street, 1 report126 St Asaph Street, 1 report120 St Asaph Street, 1 reportColonial Motor Company Garage and Setting: registerFormer P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting: registerFormer R. Buchanan & Sons' City Foundry and Setting: register

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

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

Meeting Michael Joseph Savage on St Asaph Street
Then, 1939 · Meeting Michael Joseph Savage on St Asaph Street
Now: Google Street View, 2024-06

The photograph names St Asaph 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 Bohemian Bakery). The whole collection, oldest first →

The addresses on it

and the other 27 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 1,710 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 41

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

…and 29 more whose address names it.

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 · 139 m away Rhododendron Island island · 208 m away Wilson Park ramp · 13 m away Wilson Park set of steps · 23 m away Evolution Square & Cotters Lan set of steps · 52 m away unnamed footbridge · 92 m away Te Kaharoa set of steps · 99 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names St Asaph Street in 166 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 29 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Fitzgerald Avenue & St Asaph Street, 25 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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

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on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is St Asaph Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on St Asaph Street?

176 reports at 87 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (93), roads & footpaths (53), water & drains (20).

When was St Asaph Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 122 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

What is the busiest corner on St Asaph Street?

Fitzgerald Avenue and St Asaph Street, 25 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

What heritage places are on St Asaph Street?

Colonial Motor Company Garage and Setting, Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting, Former R. Buchanan & Sons' City Foundry and Setting.

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