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Gilby Street

18 reports at 12 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 17 separate days somebody filed something about it.

18 reports12 addresses17 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 2563rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

40 Gilby Street, 3 reports39 Gilby Street, 3 reports38 Gilby Street, 2 reports28 Gilby Street, 2 reports5 Gilby Street, 1 report49 Gilby Street, 1 report36 Gilby Street, 1 report31 Gilby Street, 1 report27 Gilby Street, 1 report25C Gilby Street, 1 report23 Gilby Street, 1 report14 Gilby Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 38 m away Beverley Park shelter · 44 m away Beverley Park shelter · 75 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Gilby 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

Street Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photo more photographs
on the Linwood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Gilby Street?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Gilby Street?

18 reports at 12 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (6), graffiti & vandalism (4), water & drains (3).

When was Gilby Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 17 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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