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Canterbury Street

213 reports at 45 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 175 separate days somebody filed something about it.

213 reports45 addresses175 days reported on4 on the registerfrom the air, then1,061 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 362nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

25 Canterbury Street, 36 reports18 Canterbury Street, 21 reports79 Canterbury Street, 15 reports33B Canterbury Street, 11 reports33 Canterbury Street, 11 reports31 Canterbury Street, 9 reports93 Canterbury Street, 7 reports7 Canterbury Street, 7 reports10 Canterbury Street, 7 reports83 Canterbury Street, 5 reports77 Canterbury Street, 5 reports3 Canterbury Street, 5 reports22 Canterbury Street, 5 reports16 Canterbury Street, 5 reports14 Canterbury Street, 5 reports12 Canterbury Street, 5 reports57 Canterbury Street, 4 reports5 Canterbury Street, 4 reports49 Canterbury Street, 4 reports29 Canterbury Street, 4 reports73 Canterbury Street, 3 reports59 Canterbury Street, 3 reports51 Canterbury Street, 3 reports33A Canterbury Street, 3 reports75 Canterbury Street, 2 reports46 Canterbury Street, 2 reports39 Canterbury Street, 2 reports26 Canterbury Street, 2 reports24 Canterbury Street, 2 reports91 Canterbury Street, 1 report87 Canterbury Street, 1 report69 Canterbury Street, 1 report62 Canterbury Street, 1 report60 Canterbury Street, 1 report55 Canterbury Street, 1 report53 Canterbury Street, 1 report50 Canterbury Street, 1 report45 Canterbury Street, 1 report44 Canterbury Street, 1 report42 Canterbury Street, 1 report40 Canterbury Street, 1 report38 Canterbury Street, 1 report37-49 Canterbury Street, 1 report32 Canterbury Street, 1 report20 Canterbury Street, 1 reportDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerFormer Kilwinning Lodge and Setting: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Canterbury Street, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Lyttelton.

From the air, then

Canterbury Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Canterbury Street 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

On the register

On foot, The numbered streets · The port’s own town walk this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 1,061 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Canterbury Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Albion Square set of steps · 1 m away Albion Square set of steps · 14 m away Albion Square set of steps · 16 m away Albion Square set of steps · 16 m away Lyttelton Community Board Room set of steps · 18 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Canterbury 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

Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPothole, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPublic Toilet, a report photo more photographs
on the Lyttelton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Canterbury Street?

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Canterbury Street?

213 reports at 45 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (89), roads & footpaths (50), water & drains (38).

When was Canterbury Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 175 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Canterbury Street?

Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, 1 more on the register.

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