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London Street

316 reports at 72 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 241 separate days somebody filed something about it.

316 reports72 addresses241 days reported on8 on the registerfrom the air, then1,694 documents carry the name31 businessesthe 234th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

44A London Street, 21 reports44 London Street, 21 reports19 London Street, 17 reports24 London Street, 13 reports47 London Street, 12 reports40 London Street, 12 reports2 London Street, 12 reports20 London Street, 10 reports36 London Street, 9 reports15 London Street, 9 reports13 London Street, 9 reports3 London Street, 8 reports17 London Street, 8 reports9 London Street, 7 reports68 London Street, 7 reports48 London Street, 7 reports42 London Street, 7 reports29 London Street, 7 reports6 London Street, 6 reports36A London Street, 6 reports26 London Street, 6 reports56 London Street, 5 reports8 London Street, 4 reports50 London Street, 4 reports35 London Street, 4 reports91 London Street, 3 reports80 London Street, 3 reports54 London Street, 3 reports53 London Street, 3 reports52 London Street, 3 reports44–78 London Street, 3 reports34C London Street, 3 reports33A London Street, 3 reports33 London Street, 3 reports31 London Street, 3 reports30C London Street, 3 reports12 London Street, 3 reports91A London Street, 2 reports8A London Street, 2 reports71 London Street, 2 reports7 London Street, 2 reports69 London Street, 2 reports65 London Street, 2 reports54A London Street, 2 reports5 London Street, 2 reports36B London Street, 2 reports35-43 London Street, 2 reports32 London Street, 2 reports15A London Street, 2 reports14 London Street, 2 reports10 London Street, 2 reports93 London Street, 1 report9-11 London Street, 1 report8a London Street, 1 report87 London Street, 1 report78 London Street, 1 report77 London Street, 1 report71A London Street, 1 report67 London Street, 1 report64 London Street, 1 report4 London Street, 1 report38 London Street, 1 report37 London Street, 1 report34A London Street, 1 report34 London Street, 1 report29b London Street, 1 report1–35 London Street, 1 report18 London Street, 1 report16 London Street, 1 report15a London Street, 1 report12B London Street, 1 report11A London Street, 1 reportCommercial Building and Setting: registerCommercial Building and Setting: registerCommercial Building and Setting: registerCommercial Building and Setting: registerCommercial Building and Setting, Former Maher's Drapery: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: register

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

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

and the other 12 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

On foot, The port’s first 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. 1,694 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 31

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

…and 19 more whose address names it.

The named ground

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

Albion Square viewing platform · 3 m away Albion Square set of steps · 4 m away Albion Square shelter · 5 m away Lyttelton Library ramp · 9 m away Albion Square set of steps · 12 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names London Street in 4 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

Facility - General Request, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Lyttelton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is London Street?

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on London Street?

316 reports at 72 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (194), water & drains (27), roads & footpaths (26).

When was London Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 241 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on London Street?

Commercial Building and Setting, Commercial Building and Setting, Commercial Building and Setting, 5 more on the register.

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