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Carnarvon Street

25 reports at 16 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2016, the latest 2025. 15 separate days somebody filed something about it.

25 reports16 addresses15 days reported onfrom the air, then19 documents carry the namethe 2717th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

21 Carnarvon Street, 4 reports1 Carnarvon Street, 4 reports68 Carnarvon Street, 2 reports41A Carnarvon Street, 2 reports16 Carnarvon Street, 2 reports60 Carnarvon Street, 1 report46 Carnarvon Street, 1 report36 Carnarvon Street, 1 report3 Carnarvon Street, 1 report26 Carnarvon Street, 1 report25 Carnarvon Street, 1 report24A Carnarvon Street, 1 report22 Carnarvon Street, 1 report15 Carnarvon Street, 1 report11 Carnarvon Street, 1 report10 Carnarvon Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Carnarvon Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Carnarvon Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Carnarvon 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. 19 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 Carnarvon Street in 3 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

Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photo more photographs
on the Linwood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Carnarvon Street?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Carnarvon Street?

25 reports at 16 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (15), rubbish & dumping (5), water & drains (3).

When was Carnarvon Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 15 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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