Cable Street
13 reports at 1 address in Middleton, the first in 2022, the latest 2026. 13 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Cable Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Middleton.
From the air, then
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
- 24 Cable Street, 13 reports
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 7 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 6 reports
Year by year
- 2022, 1 report
- 2023, 4 reports
- 2024, 5 reports
- 2025, 1 report
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 43 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:
- EXPRESS" TELEGRAMS (Marlborough Express, 08 November 1876)
· Papers Past,
…y roy 3 eight ran and it was won by half a length time 3min 40f sees wellington nov 8 tha cable steamer agnes returned after performing best portion of her task having laid 37 miles of cable she will…
- News of the Week. (Otago Witness, 24 January 1880)
· Papers Past,
…ganui and the slackness of the current the new cable will wear many years longer than the cable stretched between wakapuaka and wellington where the bottom is rocky and the current strong esferring to…
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Colonist, 25 April 1882)
· Papers Past,
…oubles have partly arisen being in receipt of their full subsidy and having withdrawn the cable steamer agnes fr6mthes waters in pursuance of the ame agreement there is no obstacle in the way of new s…
- INTERPROVINCIAL. (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 18 December 1885)
· Papers Past,
interprovincial christohokcii december 37 the cable steamer sherad osborne was not successful in picking up ihe solute bay end of the cable yesterday andjis…
- LOCAL AND GENERAL (Wanganui Chronicle, 28 July 1890)
· Papers Past,
…le agency company limited a telegram from wellington sayss that lord onlow has received a cable stating the earl of jersey succeeds lord carrington as governor of new south wales the funeral of mr tho…
- ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. (Auckland Star, 12 September 1895)
· Papers Past,
…bhe fieby flavour whioh has been complained of in some of bhe new zealand butters the new cable steamer a number of tenders have been eenb io for the new cable steamer and are under consideration but…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 24 Cable St,
- Dumped Rubbish, 24 Cable Street,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 24 Cable St,
- Dumped Rubbish, 24 Cable Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 24 Cable Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 24 Cable Street,
- Graffiti, 24 Cable Street,
- Graffiti, 24 Cable Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 24 Cable Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 24 Cable Street,
- Graffiti, 24 Cable Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 24 Cable Street,
- Graffiti, 24 Cable Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Middleton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
13 reports at 1 address, most often rubbish & dumping (7), graffiti & vandalism (6).
2022, the record covers 13 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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