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Brenchley Road

45 reports at 15 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 40 separate days somebody filed something about it.

45 reports15 addresses40 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 1545th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Brenchley Road, 5 reports45E Brenchley Road, 4 reports40 Brenchley Road, 4 reports3A Brenchley Road, 4 reports2 Brenchley Road, 4 reports12 Brenchley Road, 4 reports5 Brenchley Road, 3 reports4 Brenchley Road, 3 reports3 Brenchley Road, 3 reports13 Brenchley Road, 3 reports27 Brenchley Road, 2 reports19A Brenchley Road, 2 reports15 Brenchley Road, 2 reports23 Brenchley Road, 1 report10 Brenchley Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Brenchley Road from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Brenchley Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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 →

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

Water Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Lyttelton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Brenchley Road?

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Brenchley Road?

45 reports at 15 addresses, most often water & drains (21), roads & footpaths (8), rubbish & dumping (6).

When was Brenchley Road first reported on?

2018, the record covers 40 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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