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Ripon Street

28 reports at 17 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 26 separate days somebody filed something about it.

28 reports17 addresses26 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then39 documents carry the namethe 2036th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

9 Ripon Street, 4 reports2A Ripon Street, 3 reports12 Ripon Street, 3 reports4 Ripon Street, 2 reports21 Ripon Street, 2 reports20 Ripon Street, 2 reports11 Ripon Street, 2 reports6 Ripon Street, 1 report30 Ripon Street, 1 report3 Ripon Street, 1 report29 Ripon Street, 1 report28A Ripon Street, 1 report26 Ripon Street, 1 report2 Ripon Street, 1 report18A Ripon Street, 1 report18 Ripon Street, 1 report15 Ripon Street, 1 reportDwelling and Setting: register

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

Ripon Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Ripon 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. 39 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

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

Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery set of steps · 67 m away

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

Street Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoStreet Light Outage, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Lyttelton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Ripon Street?

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Ripon Street?

28 reports at 17 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (11), water & drains (7), rubbish & dumping (4).

When was Ripon Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 26 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Ripon Street?

Dwelling and Setting.

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