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Thomas Street

103 reports at 26 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 87 separate days somebody filed something about it.

103 reports26 addresses87 days reported onfrom the air, then162 documents carry the namethe 797th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

20 Thomas Street, 12 reports17 Thomas Street, 11 reports23 Thomas Street, 8 reports36 Thomas Street, 7 reports11 Thomas Street, 7 reports22 Thomas Street, 6 reports1A Thomas Street, 5 reports15 Thomas Street, 5 reports10 Thomas Street, 5 reports1 Thomas Street, 5 reports32 Thomas Street, 4 reports6 Thomas Street, 3 reports2 Thomas Street, 3 reports1B Thomas Street, 3 reports14 Thomas Street, 3 reports7 Thomas Street, 2 reports5 Thomas Street, 2 reports24 Thomas Street, 2 reports21 Thomas Street, 2 reports19 Thomas Street, 2 reports8 Thomas Street, 1 report4 Thomas Street, 1 report30 Thomas Street, 1 report3 Thomas Street, 1 report1C Thomas Street, 1 report16 Thomas Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Thomas Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Thomas Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Thomas 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. 162 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:

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.

Linwood Pool shelter · 102 m away Linwood Pool set of steps · 107 m away Linwood Pool ramp · 127 m away Linwood Pool set of steps · 127 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Thomas Street in 6 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoRoads - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Linwood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Thomas Street?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Thomas Street?

103 reports at 26 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (35), water & drains (21), roads & footpaths (12).

When was Thomas Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 87 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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