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Chalmers Street

288 reports at 24 addresses in Hornby, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 217 separate days somebody filed something about it.

288 reports24 addresses217 days reported onfrom the air, then21 documents carry the name8 businessesthe 276th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

19 Chalmers Street, 113 reports13 Chalmers Street, 70 reports17 Chalmers Street, 32 reports7/11 Chalmers Street, 14 reports13-17 Chalmers Street, 13 reports7 Chalmers Street, 9 reports11 Chalmers Street, 5 reports35–41 Chalmers Street, 4 reports35 Chalmers Street, 4 reports3522158/13 Chalmers Street, 3 reports21/9 Chalmers Street, 3 reports9–15 Chalmers Street, 2 reports7-11 Chalmers Street, 2 reports53 Chalmers Street, 2 reports31E Chalmers Street, 2 reports3/19 Chalmers Street, 2 reports9 Chalmers Street, 1 report47 Chalmers Street, 1 report45 Chalmers Street, 1 report31 Chalmers Street, 1 report30 Chalmers Street, 1 report27–33 Chalmers Street, 1 report20-25 Chalmers Street, 1 report15 Chalmers Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Chalmers Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Chalmers Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Chalmers Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Chalmers 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. 21 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 8

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

The named ground

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

Kyle Park footbridge · 30 m away Denton Oval set of steps · 59 m away Denton Oval set of steps · 82 m away Denton Oval set of steps · 94 m away Denton Oval set of steps · 105 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Chalmers Street in 35 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 10 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

Damaged Street Light, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoBus Shelter Issue, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoLitter, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoAccessibility, a report photo more photographs
on the Hornby wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Chalmers Street?

In Hornby, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Chalmers Street?

288 reports at 24 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (107), roads & footpaths (70), trees & parks (51).

When was Chalmers Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 217 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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