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Purchas Street

95 reports at 32 addresses in Edgeware, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 79 separate days somebody filed something about it.

95 reports32 addresses79 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the namethe 883rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

105A Purchas Street, 19 reports118 Purchas Street, 13 reports135 Purchas Street, 6 reports124 Purchas Street, 5 reports105 Purchas Street, 5 reports91 Purchas Street, 3 reports160 Purchas Street, 3 reports145 Purchas Street, 3 reports130 Purchas Street, 3 reports120 Purchas Street, 3 reports112 Purchas Street, 3 reports104 Purchas Street, 3 reports101 Purchas Street, 3 reports86 Purchas Street, 2 reports153 Purchas Street, 2 reports149 Purchas Street, 2 reports116 Purchas Street, 2 reports89 Purchas Street, 1 report88 Purchas Street, 1 report156 Purchas Street, 1 report147 Purchas Street, 1 report146 Purchas Street, 1 report143 Purchas Street, 1 report139 Purchas Street, 1 report134 Purchas Street, 1 report126-128 Purchas Street, 1 report118A Purchas Street, 1 report110 Purchas Street, 1 report109 Purchas Street, 1 report108 Purchas Street, 1 report103 Purchas Street, 1 report100A Purchas Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Purchas Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Purchas Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Purchas Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Purchas 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 crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Purchas Street in 11 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Litter, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoLitter, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAnimal - Deceased, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoPothole, a report photoStreet Light Outage, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Edgeware wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Purchas Street?

In Edgeware, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Purchas Street?

95 reports at 32 addresses, most often water & drains (45), rubbish & dumping (21), roads & footpaths (18).

When was Purchas Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 79 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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