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Falcon Street

25 reports at 14 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 24 separate days somebody filed something about it.

25 reports14 addresses24 days reported onfrom the air, then9 documents carry the namethe 2120th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

20 Falcon Street, 4 reports21 Falcon Street, 3 reports1A Falcon Street, 3 reports47 Falcon Street, 2 reports37 Falcon Street, 2 reports25 Falcon Street, 2 reports12A Falcon Street, 2 reports67 Falcon Street, 1 report61 Falcon Street, 1 report47A Falcon Street, 1 report35A Falcon Street, 1 report2E Falcon Street, 1 report12B Falcon Street, 1 report1 Falcon Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Falcon Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Falcon Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Falcon Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Falcon 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.

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 · 106 m away unnamed jetty · 86 m away

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 photoAnimal - Domestic, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoAnimal - Domestic, a report photoAnimal - Domestic, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoPest / Vermin, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photo more photographs
on the New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Falcon Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Falcon Street?

25 reports at 14 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (12), animals & pests (4), vehicles & parking (3).

When was Falcon Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 24 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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