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Thames street

52 reports at 22 addresses in Mairehau, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 50 separate days somebody filed something about it.

52 reports22 addresses50 days reported onfrom the air, then224 documents carry the namethe 1297th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

6 Thames Street, 14 reports3 Thames Street, 9 reports65 Thames Street, 3 reports36 Thames Street, 3 reports84 Thames Street, 2 reports81 Thames Street, 2 reports8 Thames Street, 2 reports77 Thames Street, 2 reports43 Thames Street, 2 reports83 Thames Street, 1 report74 Thames Street, 1 report67 Thames Street, 1 report63 Thames Street, 1 report6-8 Thames Street, 1 report6 Thames street, 1 report56 Thames Street, 1 report39 Thames Street, 1 report26 Thames Street, 1 report24B Thames Street, 1 report23-27 Thames Street, 1 report21 Thames Street, 1 report11 Thames Street, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Thames street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Mairehau.

From the air, then

Thames street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Thames street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Thames street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Thames street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, 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

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 224 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Thames street in 3 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

Abandoned Vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoRoad Blockage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Mairehau wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Thames street?

In Mairehau, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Thames street?

52 reports at 22 addresses, most often water & drains (13), trees & parks (12), rubbish & dumping (10).

When was Thames street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 50 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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