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Gainsborough Street

33 reports at 16 addresses in Hoon Hay, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 32 separate days somebody filed something about it.

33 reports16 addresses32 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 1768th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

28 Gainsborough Street, 10 reports63 Gainsborough Street, 3 reports17B Gainsborough Street, 3 reports55 Gainsborough Street, 2 reports34 Gainsborough Street, 2 reports32 Gainsborough Street, 2 reports17 Gainsborough Street, 2 reports48 Gainsborough Street, 1 report38A Gainsborough Street, 1 report29 Gainsborough Street, 1 report28-32 Gainsborough Street, 1 report22 Gainsborough Street, 1 report21 Gainsborough Street, 1 report2 Gainsborough Street, 1 report17A Gainsborough Street, 1 report1 Gainsborough Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Gainsborough Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Gainsborough Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Gainsborough Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Gainsborough Street 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 crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Gainsborough Street in 3 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Gainsborough Street?

In Hoon Hay, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Gainsborough Street?

33 reports at 16 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (10), rubbish & dumping (8), graffiti & vandalism (5).

When was Gainsborough Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 32 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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