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Welles Street

336 reports at 35 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 177 separate days somebody filed something about it.

336 reports35 addresses177 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the name11 businessesthe 358th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

25 Welles Street, 37 reports10 Welles Street, 33 reports22 Welles Street, 30 reports44 Welles Street, 28 reports41 Welles Street, 27 reports7 Welles Street, 23 reports37 Welles Street, 18 reports45 Welles Street, 17 reports40 Welles Street, 13 reports20 Welles Street, 13 reports18A Welles Street, 12 reports12 Welles Street, 12 reports27 Welles Street, 10 reports3 Welles Street, 9 reports36A Welles Street, 7 reports26 Welles Street, 7 reports10a Welles Street, 5 reports81 Welles Street, 4 reports5 Welles Street, 4 reports39 Welles Street, 3 reports36D Welles Street, 3 reports24 Welles Street, 3 reports2/36 Welles Street, 3 reports36C Welles Street, 2 reports26C Welles Street, 2 reports14/26 Welles Street, 2 reports407/36C Welles Street, 1 report36 Welles Street, 1 report30 Welles Street, 1 report18-10 Welles Street, 1 report18 Welles Street, 1 report16 Welles Street, 1 report14 Welles Street, 1 report11 Welles Street, 1 report10-16 Welles Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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

The businesses on it, 11

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Welles Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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

General Request, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 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 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 Welles Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Welles Street?

336 reports at 35 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (258), roads & footpaths (48), water & drains (12).

When was Welles Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 177 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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