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Branston Street

78 reports at 24 addresses in Hornby, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 66 separate days somebody filed something about it.

78 reports24 addresses66 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the name1 businessesthe 1013th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

59A Branston Street, 10 reports11 Branston Street, 10 reports7 Branston Street, 8 reports5A Branston Street, 6 reports5 Branston Street, 6 reports43 Branston Street, 4 reports2 Branston Street, 4 reports13 Branston Street, 4 reports63 Branston Street, 3 reports34 Branston Street, 3 reports61 Branston Street, 2 reports53 Branston Street, 2 reports49 Branston Street, 2 reports41 Branston Street, 2 reports3 Branston Street, 2 reports23A Branston Street, 2 reports85A Branston Street, 1 report57 Branston Street, 1 report47 Branston Street, 1 report4 Branston Street, 1 report35A Branston Street, 1 report31 Branston Street, 1 report19 Branston Street, 1 report16 Branston Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Branston Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Branston Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Branston 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 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 businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Branston Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Branston Street in 10 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Branston Street?

In Hornby, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Branston Street?

78 reports at 24 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (21), rubbish & dumping (19), water & drains (15).

When was Branston Street first reported on?

2021, the record covers 66 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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