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Shrewsbury Street

30 reports at 13 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 28 separate days somebody filed something about it.

30 reports13 addresses28 days reported onfrom the air, then14 documents carry the namethe 1940th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Shrewsbury Street, 8 reports40 Shrewsbury Street, 3 reports34 Shrewsbury Street, 3 reports31 Shrewsbury Street, 3 reports26 Shrewsbury Street, 2 reports18 Shrewsbury Street, 2 reports17 Shrewsbury Street, 2 reports10 Shrewsbury Street, 2 reports7 Shrewsbury Street, 1 report36 Shrewsbury Street, 1 report25 Shrewsbury Street, 1 report12 Shrewsbury Street, 1 report10-26 Shrewsbury Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Shrewsbury Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shrewsbury Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shrewsbury 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. 14 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 34 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Shrewsbury Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Water Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoVandalism - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Shrewsbury Street?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Shrewsbury Street?

30 reports at 13 addresses, most often water & drains (8), roads & footpaths (7), trees & parks (6).

When was Shrewsbury Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 28 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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