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Rochester Street

37 reports at 15 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 31 separate days somebody filed something about it.

37 reports15 addresses31 days reported onfrom the air, then27 documents carry the namethe 1804th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

32 Rochester Street, 9 reports61 Rochester Street, 6 reports60 Rochester Street, 5 reports2 Rochester Street, 3 reports19 Rochester Street, 3 reports57A Rochester Street, 2 reports59 Rochester Street, 1 report40 Rochester Street, 1 report4 Rochester Street, 1 report27 Rochester Street, 1 report24 Rochester Street, 1 report20 Rochester Street, 1 report17E Rochester Street, 1 report17 Rochester Street, 1 report16 Rochester Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Rochester Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rochester Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rochester 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. 27 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 Rochester Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Litter, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPest / Vermin, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Linwood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Rochester Street?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Rochester Street?

37 reports at 15 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (14), graffiti & vandalism (9), water & drains (8).

When was Rochester Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 31 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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