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Blake Street

82 reports at 34 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 71 separate days somebody filed something about it.

82 reports34 addresses71 days reported onfrom the air, then33 documents carry the namethe 959th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

82 Blake Street, 11 reports81 Blake Street, 7 reports80 Blake Street, 7 reports31 Blake Street, 6 reports2 Blake Street, 4 reports76 Blake Street, 3 reports74 Blake Street, 3 reports61 Blake Street, 3 reports52 Blake Street, 3 reports33 Blake Street, 3 reports11 Blake Street, 3 reports51 Blake Street, 2 reports46 Blake Street, 2 reports45 Blake Street, 2 reports27 Blake Street, 2 reports19 Blake Street, 2 reports17 Blake Street, 2 reports89 Blake Street, 1 report82-80 Blake Street, 1 report78 Blake Street, 1 report72 Blake Street, 1 report68 Blake Street, 1 report63 Blake Street, 1 report5 Blake Street, 1 report38 Blake Street, 1 report37 Blake Street, 1 report34 Blake Street, 1 report32 Blake Street, 1 report3 Blake Street, 1 report2–24 Blake Street, 1 report26 Blake Street, 1 report25 Blake Street, 1 report24a Blake Street, 1 report24A Blake Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Blake Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Blake Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Blake Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Blake 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. 33 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 112 m away Bridge Reserve footbridge · 109 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Blake Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Water Leak, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoWater General, a report photo more photographs
on the New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Blake Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Blake Street?

82 reports at 34 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (19), roads & footpaths (18), water & drains (14).

When was Blake Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 71 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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