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Willow Street

74 reports at 10 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 56 separate days somebody filed something about it.

74 reports10 addresses56 days reported onfrom the air, then159 documents carry the namethe 1172nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

20 Willow Street, 16 reports17 Willow Street, 16 reports7 Willow Street, 10 reports11 Willow Street, 10 reports1 Willow Street, 8 reports19 Willow Street, 6 reports13 Willow Street, 4 reports15 Willow Street, 2 reports21 Willow Street, 1 report18 Willow Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Willow Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Willow Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Willow Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Willow 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. 159 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 54 m away Avon Corridor 1 Rrz Land boardwalk · 42 m away Avon Corridor 1 Rrz Land boardwalk · 94 m away Cambridge Green set of steps · 99 m away Cambridge Green set of steps · 122 m away

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 photoPark - General Request, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoPark - General Request, 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 photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoLitter, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Willow Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Willow Street?

74 reports at 10 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (52), rubbish & dumping (10), trees & parks (7).

When was Willow Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 56 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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