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Exeter Street

52 reports at 27 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 51 separate days somebody filed something about it.

52 reports27 addresses51 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then92 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 1273rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

42 Exeter Street, 10 reports21 Exeter Street, 4 reports1 Exeter Street, 4 reports2 Exeter Street, 3 reports49R Exeter Street, 2 reports45-49 Exeter Street, 2 reports41 Exeter Street, 2 reports40 Exeter Street, 2 reports4 Exeter Street, 2 reports34 Exeter Street, 2 reports18 Exeter Street, 2 reports11A Exeter Street, 2 reports9 Exeter Street, 1 report49 Exeter Street, 1 report47–49 Exeter Street, 1 report45 Exeter Street, 1 report43 Exeter Street, 1 report42B Exeter Street, 1 report37 Exeter Street, 1 report35A Exeter Street, 1 report32 Exeter Street, 1 report3 Exeter Street, 1 report26 Exeter Street, 1 report23 Exeter Street, 1 report22 Exeter Street, 1 report20 Exeter Street, 1 report19 Exeter Street, 1 reportFormer Dwelling and Setting: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Exeter 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

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

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 92 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Exeter 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.

Oxford Street Reserve set of steps · 23 m away Norman Kirk Memorial Pool set of steps · 26 m away Norman Kirk Memorial Pool set of steps · 26 m away Norman Kirk Memorial Pool set of steps · 27 m away Norman Kirk Memorial Pool shelter · 54 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Exeter Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Trees - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photo more photographs
on the Lyttelton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Exeter Street?

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Exeter Street?

52 reports at 27 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (15), roads & footpaths (13), water & drains (9).

When was Exeter Street first reported on?

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

What heritage places are on Exeter Street?

Former Dwelling and Setting.

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