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Godley Quay

170 reports at 34 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 136 separate days somebody filed something about it.

170 reports34 addresses136 days reported on5 on the registerfrom the air, then19 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 506th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

3 Godley Quay, 24 reports56 Godley Quay, 17 reports55 Godley Quay, 17 reports54 Godley Quay, 15 reports28 Godley Quay, 9 reports22 Godley Quay, 9 reports18 Godley Quay, 9 reports8 Godley Quay, 6 reports29 Godley Quay, 6 reports47 Godley Quay, 5 reports59 Godley Quay, 4 reports52 Godley Quay, 4 reports51 Godley Quay, 4 reports45 Godley Quay, 4 reports26 Godley Quay, 4 reports6 Godley Quay, 3 reports30 Godley Quay, 3 reports20 Godley Quay, 3 reports50 Godley Quay, 2 reports48 Godley Quay, 2 reports4 Godley Quay, 2 reports32 Godley Quay, 2 reports31 Godley Quay, 2 reports14 Godley Quay, 2 reports12 Godley Quay, 2 reports10 Godley Quay, 2 reports53–57 Godley Quay, 1 report4–18 Godley Quay, 1 report44 Godley Quay, 1 report43 Godley Quay, 1 report39 Godley Quay, 1 report37 Godley Quay, 1 report35 Godley Quay, 1 report24 Godley Quay, 1 reportDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting, Dalcroy House: registerDwelling and Setting, Lochranza: registerGraving Dock and Setting: register

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

Godley Quay from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Godley Quay 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 port’s own town · The port’s first streets walk this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 19 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 Godley Quay, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Godley Quay in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Godley Quay?

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Godley Quay?

170 reports at 34 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (67), roads & footpaths (36), trees & parks (22).

When was Godley Quay first reported on?

2017, the record covers 136 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Godley Quay?

Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, Dalcroy House, 2 more on the register.

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