Bridge Street

429 reports at 68 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 298 separate days somebody filed something about it.

429 reports 68 addresses298 days reported onfrom the air, then 177 documents carry the name 1 businessesthe 156th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Bridge Street from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

Bridge Street from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Bridge Street from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Bridge 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

143 Bridge Street, 133 reports
114 Bridge Street, 44 reports
200 Bridge Street, 26 reports
116 Bridge Street, 18 reports
14 Bridge Street, 14 reports
124–156 Bridge Street, 10 reports
62A Bridge Street, 9 reports
127 Bridge Street, 9 reports
65 Bridge Street, 8 reports
32 Bridge Street, 8 reports
141 Bridge Street, 8 reports
57 Bridge Street, 7 reports
40 Bridge Street, 7 reports
121 Bridge Street, 7 reports
119A Bridge Street, 6 reports
64 Bridge Street, 5 reports
60 Bridge Street, 5 reports
137 Bridge Street, 5 reports
83 Bridge Street, 4 reports
63 Bridge Street, 4 reports
59 Bridge Street, 4 reports
158 Bridge Street, 4 reports
139 Bridge Street, 4 reports
112 Bridge Street, 4 reports
104 Bridge Street, 4 reports
102 Bridge Street, 4 reports
69 Bridge Street, 3 reports
38 Bridge Street, 3 reports
37 Bridge Street, 3 reports
19 Bridge Street, 3 reports
16E Bridge Street, 3 reports
118 Bridge Street, 3 reports
117 Bridge Street, 3 reports
96 Bridge Street, 2 reports
80 Bridge Street, 2 reports
79 Bridge Street, 2 reports
73 Bridge Street, 2 reports
70 Bridge Street, 2 reports
67 Bridge Street, 2 reports
33 Bridge Street, 2 reports
133 Bridge Street, 2 reports
131 Bridge Street, 2 reports
12 Bridge Street, 2 reports
119C Bridge Street, 2 reports
106 Bridge Street, 2 reports
98A Bridge Street, 1 report
92 Bridge Street, 1 report
90C Bridge Street, 1 report
62B Bridge Street, 1 report
51 Bridge Street, 1 report
5 Bridge Street, 1 report
40E Bridge Street, 1 report
39 Bridge Street, 1 report
36 Bridge Street, 1 report
31 Bridge Street, 1 report
30 Bridge Street, 1 report
3 Bridge Street, 1 report
18 Bridge Street, 1 report
16 Bridge Street, 1 report
15 Bridge Street, 1 report

and the other 8 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 271 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 64 reports
Roads & footpaths, 31 reports
Trees & parks, 22 reports
Water & drains, 15 reports
Everything else, 14 reports
Vehicles & parking, 9 reports
Animals & pests, 3 reports

Year by year

2015, 2 reports
2016, 9 reports
2017, 13 reports
2018, 25 reports
2019, 7 reports
2020, 17 reports
2021, 48 reports
2022, 41 reports
2023, 45 reports
2024, 135 reports
2025, 59 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 177 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

toCleanings of News. FROM ENGLISH PAPERS TO 16TH DECEMBER. (Colonist, 30 March 1858) · Papers Past, 30 Mar 1858
…arets and lanterns which give to the whole an inexpressibly light and graceful effect the bridge stretches from the middlesex side from the centre of that debateable land vvheie chelsea ends and pimli…
RETURNED LETTERS (Lyttelton Times, 13 October 1860) · Papers Past, 13 Oct 1860
…ssrs 8 york street wynyard square sheppherd mr post office melbourne sherwood 5 bear yard bridge street berks smith john 4 triangle place prince edward street stoke newington england sparks ann south…
Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 13 February 1861) · Papers Past, 13 Feb 1861
…ontaining 010 12 10 0 82 0 1 0 12 10 0 83 0 1 0 12 10 0 84 0 1 0 12 10 0 85 0 1 0 12 10 0 bridge street 147 0 10 12 10 0 east quay 152 0 1 0 12 10 0 west quay 52 0 10 20 0 0 53 0 1 0 20 0 0 127 10 0 t…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 (Wellington Independent, 05 July 1861) · Papers Past, 5 Jul 1861
…nd 2 thomson alex smyth creek mel bourne thulbe james pall-st perth scotland trewavas r j bridge street nelson turner private wm 50th regimeut colombo ceylon vaughan mrs a nelson venus j t between 3rd…
Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 06 November 1861) · Papers Past, 6 Nov 1861
…ydney agency mr edward greville of the australian telegraphic and news agency office no 8 bridge street sydney has been appointed agent for the lyttelton times a copy of each issue will be filed in th…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 23 November 1861) · Papers Past, 23 Nov 1861
…ydney agency mr edward greville of the australian telegraphic and news agency office no 8 bridge street sydney has been appointed agent for the lyttelton times a copy of each issue will be filed in th…

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

The businesses on it, 1

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

Dune CafeCafés · 51 Bridge Street

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.