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Victoria Street

424 reports at 98 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 326 separate days somebody filed something about it.

424 reports98 addresses326 days reported on3 on the registerfrom the air, thenthen / now1,588 documents carry the name63 businessesthe 137th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

155 Victoria Street, 28 reports157 Victoria Street, 22 reports40 Victoria Street, 16 reports20 Victoria Street, 15 reports91 Victoria Street, 13 reports95 Victoria Street, 12 reports92 Victoria Street, 11 reports143 Victoria Street, 11 reports108 Victoria Street, 11 reports113 Victoria Street, 10 reports177 Victoria Street, 9 reports148 Victoria Street, 9 reports118 Victoria Street, 9 reports106 Victoria Street, 8 reports88 Victoria Street, 7 reports130 Victoria Street, 7 reports81 Victoria Street, 6 reports50 Victoria Street, 6 reports167 Victoria Street, 6 reports161 Victoria Street, 6 reports145 Victoria Street, 6 reports123 Victoria Street, 6 reports122 Victoria Street, 6 reports88A Victoria Street, 5 reports77 Victoria Street, 5 reports73 Victoria Street, 5 reports65 Victoria Street, 5 reports62E Victoria Street, 5 reports60 Victoria Street, 5 reports30 Victoria Street, 5 reports171 Victoria Street, 5 reports169 Victoria Street, 5 reports134 Victoria Street, 5 reports102 Victoria Street, 5 reports100 Victoria Street, 5 reports99 Victoria Street, 4 reports87 Victoria Street, 4 reports83 Victoria Street, 4 reports76 Victoria Street, 4 reports48 Victoria Street, 4 reports31 Victoria Street, 4 reports133 Victoria Street, 4 reports132 Victoria Street, 4 reports104 Victoria Street, 4 reports96 Victoria Street, 3 reports71 Victoria Street, 3 reports31-33 Victoria Street, 3 reports165 Victoria Street, 3 reports138 Victoria Street, 3 reports137 Victoria Street, 3 reports131 Victoria Street, 3 reports101 Victoria Street, 3 reports1/134 Victoria Street, 3 reports98 Victoria Street, 2 reports94 Victoria Street, 2 reports90 Victoria Street, 2 reports89 Victoria Street, 2 reports78 Victoria Street, 2 reports74 Victoria Street, 2 reports67 Victoria Street, 2 reports66 Victoria Street, 2 reports61 Victoria Street, 2 reports56 Victoria Street, 2 reports53 Victoria Street, 2 reports183 Victoria Street, 2 reports181 Victoria Street, 2 reports169-171 Victoria Street, 2 reports149 Victoria Street, 2 reports138-146 Victoria Street, 2 reports89a Victoria Street, 1 report85 Victoria Street, 1 report80-86 Victoria Street, 1 report59 Victoria Street, 1 report57-61 Victoria Street, 1 report57 Victoria Street, 1 report55 Victoria Street, 1 report31-73 Victoria Street, 1 report2/50 Victoria Street, 1 report185 Victoria Street, 1 report179A Victoria Street, 1 report179 Victoria Street, 1 report173 Victoria Street, 1 report159 Victoria Street, 1 report149b Victoria Street, 1 report149B Victoria Street, 1 report149-155 Victoria Street, 1 report143A Victoria Street, 1 report134-138 Victoria Street, 1 report133-135 Victoria Street, 1 report132b Victoria Street, 1 report132A Victoria Street, 1 report131-133 Victoria Street, 1 report109 Victoria Street, 1 report108E Victoria Street, 1 report107-113 Victoria Street, 1 report105 Victoria Street, 1 report1/99 Victoria Street, 1 report1/143 Victoria Street, 1 reportFormer Dwellings and Setting, Santa Barbara: registerJubilee Clock Tower and Setting: registerVictoria Mansions and Setting: register

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

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

Railing and moulding, Victoria Street bridge
Then, 1874 · Railing and moulding, Victoria Street bridge
Now: Google Street View, 2025-03

The photograph names Victoria 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 The Bog Irish Bar). The whole collection, oldest first →

The addresses on it

and the other 38 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. 1,588 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 63

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

…and 51 more whose address names it.

The named ground

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

Victoria Triangles set of steps · 11 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Victoria Street in 31 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 8 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

The stops on it, 2

2 Metro stops on Victoria Street in Christchurch Central City, in ECan’s stop record: served by route 1, route 29, route 95.

Every route in the record →

As it was reported

Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoWater General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, 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 photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater General, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Victoria Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Victoria Street?

424 reports at 98 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (172), roads & footpaths (102), water & drains (77).

When was Victoria Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 326 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Victoria Street?

Former Dwellings and Setting, Santa Barbara, Jubilee Clock Tower and Setting, Victoria Mansions and Setting.

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