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Thornycroft Street

44 reports at 23 addresses in Fendalton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 42 separate days somebody filed something about it.

44 reports23 addresses42 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the name2 businessesthe 1472nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

23 Thornycroft Street, 9 reports35A Thornycroft Street, 4 reports33A Thornycroft Street, 4 reports44 Thornycroft Street, 3 reports27A Thornycroft Street, 3 reports35 Thornycroft Street, 2 reports27 Thornycroft Street, 2 reports11 Thornycroft Street, 2 reports9 Thornycroft Street, 1 report8 Thornycroft Street, 1 report6 Thornycroft Street, 1 report40A Thornycroft Street, 1 report40 Thornycroft Street, 1 report39 Thornycroft Street, 1 report34 Thornycroft Street, 1 report32 Thornycroft Street, 1 report31 Thornycroft Street, 1 report3 Thornycroft Street, 1 report28 Thornycroft Street, 1 report25 Thornycroft Street, 1 report17 Thornycroft Street, 1 report13 Thornycroft Street, 1 report1 Thornycroft Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Thornycroft Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Thornycroft Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Thornycroft 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, 2

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

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.

Wairarapa Stream stream · 17 m away Jeffreys Reserve footbridge · 27 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Thornycroft Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Water Leak, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoPlayground Equipment, a report photoPlayground Equipment, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoAccessibility, a report photo more photographs
on the Fendalton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Thornycroft Street?

In Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Thornycroft Street?

44 reports at 23 addresses, most often trees & parks (16), water & drains (6), roads & footpaths (6).

When was Thornycroft Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 42 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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