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Victoria Street

22 reports at 3 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 20 separate days somebody filed something about it.

22 reports3 addresses20 days reported onfrom the air, then1,610 documents carry the namethe 2349th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

185 Victoria Street, 17 reports183 Victoria Street, 4 reports181 Victoria Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Victoria Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Victoria Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Victoria 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. 1,610 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 Victoria Street in 11 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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

Litter, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoGraffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Victoria Street?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Victoria Street?

22 reports at 3 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (11), roads & footpaths (8), rubbish & dumping (2).

When was Victoria Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 20 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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