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Montague Street

14 reports at 8 addresses in Islington, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 14 separate days somebody filed something about it.

14 reports8 addresses14 days reported onfrom the air, then12 documents carry the namethe 2797th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

18 Montague Street, 3 reports9 Montague Street, 2 reports5 Montague Street, 2 reports4 Montague Street, 2 reports11 Montague Street, 2 reports7 Montague Street, 1 report15 Montague Street, 1 report10 Montague Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Montague Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Montague Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Montague Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Montague 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 named ground

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

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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Montague Street?

In Islington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Montague Street?

14 reports at 8 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (6), roads & footpaths (5), rubbish & dumping (3).

When was Montague Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 14 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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