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Barlow Street

55 reports at 14 addresses in Ilam, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 49 separate days somebody filed something about it.

55 reports14 addresses49 days reported onfrom the air, then8 documents carry the namethe 1311th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

15 Barlow Street, 16 reports8 Barlow Street, 9 reports10 Barlow Street, 6 reports3 Barlow Street, 5 reports1 Barlow Street, 4 reports6 Barlow Street, 3 reports2A Barlow Street, 3 reports5 Barlow Street, 2 reports22 Barlow Street, 2 reports9-15 Barlow Street, 1 report9 Barlow Street, 1 report2–14 Barlow Street, 1 report20 Barlow Street, 1 report16 Barlow Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Barlow Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Barlow Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Barlow 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. 8 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Waimairi Stream stream · 13 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Barlow Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Overgrown Vegetation, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Ilam wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Barlow Street?

In Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Barlow Street?

55 reports at 14 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (16), graffiti & vandalism (13), rubbish & dumping (11).

When was Barlow Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 49 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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