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Elmslie Grove

35 reports at 12 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 33 separate days somebody filed something about it.

35 reports12 addresses33 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 1740th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

9 Elmslie Grove, 9 reports11 Elmslie Grove, 6 reports18 Elmslie Grove, 5 reports27 Elmslie Grove, 3 reports15 Elmslie Grove, 3 reports3A Elmslie Grove, 2 reports3 Elmslie Grove, 2 reports6 Elmslie Grove, 1 report26 Elmslie Grove, 1 report22 Elmslie Grove, 1 report16 Elmslie Grove, 1 report1 Elmslie Grove, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Elmslie Grove from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Elmslie Grove from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Elmslie Grove from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Elmslie Grove from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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 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.

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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Elmslie Grove?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Elmslie Grove?

35 reports at 12 addresses, most often water & drains (14), roads & footpaths (10), trees & parks (5).

When was Elmslie Grove first reported on?

2017, the record covers 33 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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