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Oxford Street

495 reports at 68 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 353 separate days somebody filed something about it.

495 reports68 addresses353 days reported on9 on the registerfrom the air, thenthen / now1,023 documents carry the name7 businessesthe 113th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

26 Oxford Street, 83 reports54 Oxford Street, 73 reports6 Oxford Street, 35 reports24 Oxford Street, 28 reports20 Oxford Street, 27 reports26A Oxford Street, 21 reports18 Oxford Street, 12 reports25 Oxford Street, 10 reports54A Oxford Street, 9 reports39 Oxford Street, 9 reports29 Oxford Street, 9 reports87 Oxford Street, 8 reports56 Oxford Street, 8 reports37 Oxford Street, 8 reports26E Oxford Street, 8 reports94 Oxford Street, 7 reports80 Oxford Street, 6 reports34 Oxford Street, 6 reports16 Oxford Street, 6 reports13B Oxford Street, 6 reports10 Oxford Street, 6 reports82 Oxford Street, 5 reports78 Oxford Street, 5 reports60 Oxford Street, 5 reports41 Oxford Street, 5 reports22 Oxford Street, 5 reports17 Oxford Street, 5 reports90 Oxford Street, 4 reports66 Oxford Street, 4 reports43 Oxford Street, 4 reports31 Oxford Street, 4 reports13a Oxford Street, 4 reports88 Oxford Street, 3 reports84 Oxford Street, 3 reports54C Oxford Street, 3 reports394 Oxford Street, 3 reports33 Oxford Street, 3 reports28 Oxford Street, 3 reports23 Oxford Street, 3 reports13 Oxford Street, 3 reports86 Oxford Street, 2 reports62 Oxford Street, 2 reports58 Oxford Street, 2 reports57 Oxford Street, 2 reports45 Oxford Street, 2 reports26D Oxford Street, 2 reports18B Oxford Street, 2 reports12 Oxford Street, 2 reports96 Oxford Street, 1 report70 Oxford Street, 1 report69A Oxford Street, 1 report69 Oxford Street, 1 report67 Oxford Street, 1 report64 Oxford Street, 1 report59 Oxford Street, 1 report50 Oxford Street, 1 report46 Oxford Street, 1 report44 Oxford Street, 1 report40 Oxford Street, 1 report39-41 Oxford Street, 1 report38 Oxford Street, 1 report36 Oxford Street, 1 report26B Oxford Street, 1 report26-54 Oxford Street, 1 report26-22 Oxford Street, 1 report19 Oxford Street, 1 report15 Oxford Street, 1 report1/94 Oxford Street, 1 reportCommercial Building and Setting: registerCommercial Building and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerFormer British Hotel and Setting: registerFormer Lyttelton Gaol Site: registerFormer Warder's House and Setting: register

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

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

Then and now

Oxford Street and London Street in Lyttelton
Then, 2005 · Oxford Street and London Street in Lyttelton
Now: Google Street View, 2025-04

The photograph names Oxford Street in its title and its copy is hosted under the source record’s stated rights, it opens that record. The frame is the street as it stands, the pose the QC bank verified (outside Lyttelton Health Centre). The whole collection, oldest first →

The addresses on it

and the other 8 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

On foot, The numbered streets · 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. 1,023 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

The businesses on it, 7

Premises whose address in the directory is Oxford 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.

Norman Kirk Memorial Pool set of steps · a reported pin on the line Norman Kirk Memorial Pool set of steps · 4 m away Norman Kirk Memorial Pool shelter · 4 m away Norman Kirk Memorial Pool set of steps · 6 m away Norman Kirk Memorial Pool set of steps · 8 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Oxford Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

The stops on it, 1

1 Metro stop on Oxford Street in Lyttelton, in ECan’s stop record: served by route 155, route 8.

Every route in the record →

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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

Playground Equipment, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPublic Toilet, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 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 photo more photographs
on the Lyttelton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Oxford Street?

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Oxford Street?

495 reports at 68 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (305), trees & parks (59), roads & footpaths (53).

When was Oxford Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 353 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Oxford Street?

Commercial Building and Setting, Commercial Building and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, 6 more on the register.

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