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Tower Street

82 reports at 30 addresses in Hornby, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 75 separate days somebody filed something about it.

82 reports30 addresses75 days reported onfrom the air, then13 documents carry the name3 businessesthe 925th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

29 Tower Street, 11 reports31A Tower Street, 7 reports32 Tower Street, 6 reports13 Tower Street, 6 reports8 Tower Street, 5 reports39 Tower Street, 5 reports27 Tower Street, 4 reports1 Tower Street, 4 reports33 Tower Street, 3 reports27B Tower Street, 3 reports20 Tower Street, 3 reports15 Tower Street, 3 reports56 Tower Street, 2 reports34 Tower Street, 2 reports27A Tower Street, 2 reports21 Tower Street, 2 reports9 Tower Street, 1 report7 Tower Street, 1 report6 Tower Street, 1 report5 Tower Street, 1 report31 Tower Street, 1 report30 Tower Street, 1 report3 Tower Street, 1 report2A/6 Tower Street, 1 report25 Tower Street, 1 report23 Tower Street, 1 report22 Tower Street, 1 report19 Tower Street, 1 report18 Tower Street, 1 report17A Tower Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Tower Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tower Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tower Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tower 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. 13 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 3

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Tower Street in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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

Water Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater General, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Hornby wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Tower Street?

In Hornby, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Tower Street?

82 reports at 30 addresses, most often water & drains (18), graffiti & vandalism (17), rubbish & dumping (15).

When was Tower Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 75 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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