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Canterbury Street

21 reports at 4 addresses in Hornby, the first in 2018, the latest 2025. 20 separate days somebody filed something about it.

21 reports4 addresses20 days reported onfrom the air, then1,061 documents carry the namethe 2340th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

7 Canterbury Street, 14 reports25 Canterbury Street, 3 reports1-5 Canterbury Street, 3 reports2 Canterbury Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Canterbury Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Canterbury Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Canterbury Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Canterbury 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. 1,061 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Canterbury Street in 6 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

Street Cleaning, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoGraffiti, a report photo more photographs
on the Hornby wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Canterbury Street?

In Hornby, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Canterbury Street?

21 reports at 4 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (10), rubbish & dumping (9), water & drains (1).

When was Canterbury Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 20 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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