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Herdman Street

44 reports at 14 addresses in Hoon Hay, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 41 separate days somebody filed something about it.

44 reports14 addresses41 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1511th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

10 Herdman Street, 10 reports2 Herdman Street, 7 reports7 Herdman Street, 5 reports6 Herdman Street, 5 reports4 Herdman Street, 3 reports21 Herdman Street, 3 reports26 Herdman Street, 2 reports24 Herdman Street, 2 reports19 Herdman Street, 2 reports9 Herdman Street, 1 report8 Herdman Street, 1 report22 Herdman Street, 1 report16 Herdman Street, 1 report11A Herdman Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Herdman Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Herdman Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Herdman Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Herdman 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 Herdman Street in 1 crash 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 Herdman Street?

In Hoon Hay, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Herdman Street?

44 reports at 14 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (16), water & drains (12), roads & footpaths (7).

When was Herdman Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 41 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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