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Stirling Street

19 reports at 9 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2017, the latest 2025. 19 separate days somebody filed something about it.

19 reports9 addresses19 days reported onfrom the air, then75 documents carry the namethe 2421st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

7 Stirling Street, 4 reports19 Stirling Street, 4 reports11 Stirling Street, 3 reports9 Stirling Street, 2 reports10 Stirling Street, 2 reports4 Stirling Street, 1 report3 Stirling Street, 1 report17 Stirling Street, 1 report15 Stirling Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Stirling Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Stirling Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Stirling 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. 75 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.

Merivale Reserve shelter · 49 m away Merivale Reserve set of steps · 104 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

Pavement - Damaged, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoLitter, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoWastewater/Stormwater, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoWater Supply, a report photoWater Supply, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Stirling Street?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Stirling Street?

19 reports at 9 addresses, most often water & drains (5), rubbish & dumping (4), roads & footpaths (4).

When was Stirling Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 19 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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