chch.live a street, in depth

Dobbs Street

3 council reports at 3 addresses on Dobbs Street, Halswell, on record since March 2025.

3 reports3 addresses3 days reported onfrom the air, then8 documents carry the name

Where it runs

3 Dobbs Street, 1 report2 Dobbs Street, 1 report1 Dobbs Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Dobbs Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dobbs Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dobbs Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dobbs 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 numbered spots

What got reported

Year by year

Documents that name it

Records on the shelf that name Dobbs Street, 8 in total; the 3 earliest:

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

As it was reported

Latest on record

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Dobbs Street?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Dobbs Street?

3 reports at 3 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (2), trees & parks (1).

When was Dobbs Street first reported on?

2025, the record covers 3 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

Everything about Halswell → · Every street the archive knows → · the whole A–Z → · This street as a feed →