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Stratford Street

15 reports at 12 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 15 separate days somebody filed something about it.

15 reports12 addresses15 days reported onfrom the air, then13 documents carry the namethe 2726th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

34A Stratford Street, 2 reports23 Stratford Street, 2 reports14 Stratford Street, 2 reports8A Stratford Street, 1 report7 Stratford Street, 1 report38 Stratford Street, 1 report36A Stratford Street, 1 report33 Stratford Street, 1 report30 Stratford Street, 1 report29 Stratford Street, 1 report25 Stratford Street, 1 report11 Stratford Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Stratford Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Stratford Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Stratford 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. 13 on the shelf; the 2 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.

Wairarapa Stream stream · 79 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

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPothole, a report photoWater General, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Light Outage, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoPothole, a report photoFlooding, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Stratford Street?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Stratford Street?

15 reports at 12 addresses, most often water & drains (4), roads & footpaths (4), rubbish & dumping (2).

When was Stratford Street first reported on?

2020, the record covers 15 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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