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Beresford Street

363 reports at 59 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 229 separate days somebody filed something about it.

363 reports59 addresses229 days reported onfrom the air, then65 documents carry the name3 businessesthe 255th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

37 Beresford Street, 58 reports10 Beresford Street, 32 reports58 Beresford Street, 30 reports61 Beresford Street, 25 reports3 Beresford Street, 21 reports15 Beresford Street, 20 reports28 Beresford Street, 13 reports21 Beresford Street, 13 reports82 Beresford Street, 11 reports32 Beresford Street, 10 reports57 Beresford Street, 9 reports56 Beresford Street, 8 reports29 Beresford Street, 8 reports30 Beresford Street, 7 reports20 Beresford Street, 7 reports69 Beresford Street, 6 reports68 Beresford Street, 6 reports5 Beresford Street, 6 reports34 Beresford Street, 6 reports3E Beresford Street, 5 reports26 Beresford Street, 5 reports64 Beresford Street, 3 reports40 Beresford Street, 3 reports23 Beresford Street, 3 reports126 Beresford Street, 3 reports111 Beresford Street, 3 reports105A Beresford Street, 3 reports86 Beresford Street, 2 reports77 Beresford Street, 2 reports74 Beresford Street, 2 reports55 Beresford Street, 2 reports33-49 Beresford Street, 2 reports13 Beresford Street, 2 reports125 Beresford Street, 2 reports90 Beresford Street, 1 report9 Beresford Street, 1 report89 Beresford Street, 1 report79 Beresford Street, 1 report71 Beresford Street, 1 report67A Beresford Street, 1 report67 Beresford Street, 1 report63 Beresford Street, 1 report60 Beresford Street, 1 report53 Beresford Street, 1 report50 Beresford Street, 1 report48 Beresford Street, 1 report42 Beresford Street, 1 report39 Beresford Street, 1 report36 Beresford Street, 1 report35-47 Beresford Street, 1 report25 Beresford Street, 1 report22-24 Beresford Street, 1 report123 Beresford Street, 1 report121 Beresford Street, 1 report117 Beresford Street, 1 report113 Beresford Street, 1 report109 Beresford Street, 1 report105 Beresford Street, 1 report1/15 Beresford Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Beresford Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Beresford Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Beresford Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Beresford Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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. 65 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 3

Premises whose address in the directory is Beresford Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 34 m away New Brighton Beach beach · 67 m away New Brighton Pier pier · 110 m away New Brighton Beach Developed set of steps · 52 m away New Brighton Beach Developed set of steps · 63 m away New Brighton Beach ramp · 64 m away New Brighton Beach Developed set of steps · 66 m away New Brighton Beach Developed set of steps · 86 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Beresford Street in 17 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoBus Shelter Issue, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Beresford Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Beresford Street?

363 reports at 59 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (266), roads & footpaths (31), trees & parks (19).

When was Beresford Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 229 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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