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Winchester Street

82 reports at 27 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 74 separate days somebody filed something about it.

82 reports27 addresses74 days reported on10 on the registerfrom the air, then377 documents carry the namethe 933rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

28 Winchester Street, 8 reports2 Winchester Street, 8 reports29 Winchester Street, 6 reports23 Winchester Street, 6 reports11 Winchester Street, 6 reports25 Winchester Street, 5 reports24 Winchester Street, 5 reports42 Winchester Street, 4 reports41 Winchester Street, 4 reports30 Winchester Street, 4 reports33 Winchester Street, 3 reports31 Winchester Street, 3 reports13 Winchester Street, 3 reports35A Winchester Street, 2 reports3 Winchester Street, 2 reports18A Winchester Street, 2 reports9 Winchester Street, 1 report7 Winchester Street, 1 report5 Winchester Street, 1 report44A Winchester Street, 1 report38 Winchester Street, 1 report36 Winchester Street, 1 report32A Winchester Street, 1 report32 Winchester Street, 1 report20 Winchester Street, 1 report17 Winchester Street, 1 report11a Winchester Street, 1 reportDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerSt Saviours Church at Holy Trinity: register

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

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

On foot, The numbered 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. 377 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The civic shelf on it

Libraries, halls and the rest whose council open-data address is the street.

The named ground

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

Lyttelton Recreation Centre set of steps · 2 m away Lyttelton Recreation Centre set of steps · 5 m away Lyttelton Recreation Centre ramp · 6 m away Lyttelton Recreation Centre ramp · 12 m away Lyttelton Recreation Centre set of steps · 12 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Winchester Street in 1 crash 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

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoFlooding, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photo more photographs
on the Lyttelton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Winchester Street?

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Winchester Street?

82 reports at 27 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (28), water & drains (21), roads & footpaths (12).

When was Winchester Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 74 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Winchester Street?

Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, 7 more on the register.

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