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Surrey Street

55 reports at 16 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 51 separate days somebody filed something about it.

55 reports16 addresses51 days reported onfrom the air, then23 documents carry the namethe 1272nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

44 Surrey Street, 16 reports41 Surrey Street, 8 reports31 Surrey Street, 7 reports56 Surrey Street, 6 reports45B Surrey Street, 3 reports52B Surrey Street, 2 reports49 Surrey Street, 2 reports46 Surrey Street, 2 reports32-44 Surrey Street, 2 reports9 Surrey Street, 1 report50 Surrey Street, 1 report47 Surrey Street, 1 report32 Surrey Street, 1 report30 Surrey Street, 1 report29 Surrey Street, 1 report21 Surrey Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Surrey Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Surrey Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Surrey 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. 23 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 Surrey Street in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoPothole, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photo more photographs
on the Linwood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Surrey Street?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Surrey Street?

55 reports at 16 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (23), graffiti & vandalism (13), roads & footpaths (10).

When was Surrey Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 51 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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