Marsden Street

28 reports at 12 addresses in Heathcote Valley, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 28 separate days somebody filed something about it.

28 reports 12 addresses28 days reported onfrom the air, then 8 documents carry the namethe 1936th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Marsden Street from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

Marsden Street from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Marsden Street from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · 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

24 Marsden Street, 5 reports
12 Marsden Street, 5 reports
25 Marsden Street, 4 reports
17 Marsden Street, 3 reports
8 Marsden Street, 2 reports
23 Marsden Street, 2 reports
2 Marsden Street, 2 reports
21 Marsden Street, 1 report
2/9 Marsden Street, 1 report
16 Marsden Street, 1 report
14 Marsden Street, 1 report
13 Marsden Street, 1 report

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 17 reports
Water & drains, 6 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 3 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 2 reports

Year by year

2015, 2 reports
2016, 1 report
2018, 1 report
2019, 3 reports
2020, 5 reports
2021, 1 report
2022, 7 reports
2023, 3 reports
2024, 2 reports
2025, 1 report

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 8 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

WOMEN IN PRINT. (Evening Post, 10 March 1910) · Papers Past, 10 Mar 1910
…return by otira to chritchurch where mrs and miss pollock will meet them mr and mra james marsden stoke and miss marsden leave by the mongolia from auckland on friday for london one of their objects i…
N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 30 June 1941) · Papers Past, 30 Jun 1941
…lawrence trevor bdr mr j kendall keri keri f kershaw john francis lcpl mr f t kershaw 73 marsden street lower hutt f kibblewhite kenneth william gnr mr j t kibbiewhite 196 hutt road petone f kirby ha…
N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 08 August 1941) · Papers Past, 8 Aug 1941
…in jordan percy thomas ite mr t jordan 30 burlinjiton street jliristcliurcli f kershaw 73 marsden street lower hutt f knight dalgety pte mrs a e sharpe aria mj laintj bruce hunter lcpl mr j c e laiug…
SECOND LIST (Evening Post, 17 December 1941) · Papers Past, 17 Dec 1941
…mrs o m ford 178 st vincent street nelson m forrester thomas cyril pte mrs j forrester 8 marsden street heathcote w fraser john edward sgt mrs c a fraser 173 liddell street invercargill m freer raymo…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 28 December 1944) · Papers Past, 28 Dec 1944
…ames h pte mr o robinson fitzgerald street hokitika f ruru henry t pte mr dawson smith 22 marsden street lower hutt brother ryan hector h g pte mrs g ryan 23 litchffeld street blenheim ra savage johns…
No Asset Procedures · New Zealand Gazette, 17 Apr 2008
…venue, Milford, Auckland – 9 April 2008.Graham, Chanyelle (also known as Graham, Shan), 8 Marsden Street, Levin – 8 April 2008.Graves, Cherie (also known as Graves, Sherie), 65 Truman Road, Burnside,…

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

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Bridle Park set of steps · 99 m away Bridle Park set of steps · 101 m away Bridle Park set of steps · 105 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.