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Lonsdale Street

121 reports at 54 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 107 separate days somebody filed something about it.

121 reports54 addresses107 days reported onfrom the air, then77 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 658th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

94 Lonsdale Street, 11 reports100 Lonsdale Street, 11 reports100C Lonsdale Street, 6 reports148 Lonsdale Street, 5 reports116 Lonsdale Street, 5 reports97 Lonsdale Street, 4 reports67 Lonsdale Street, 4 reports60-62 Lonsdale Street, 4 reports32A Lonsdale Street, 4 reports68 Lonsdale Street, 3 reports64 Lonsdale Street, 3 reports54A Lonsdale Street, 3 reports54 Lonsdale Street, 3 reports38 Lonsdale Street, 3 reports3 Lonsdale Street, 3 reports20 Lonsdale Street, 3 reports94-100 Lonsdale Street, 2 reports82 Lonsdale Street, 2 reports63 Lonsdale Street, 2 reports62 Lonsdale Street, 2 reports35 Lonsdale Street, 2 reports140A Lonsdale Street, 2 reports14 Lonsdale Street, 2 reports131 Lonsdale Street, 2 reports9 Lonsdale Street, 1 report86 Lonsdale Street, 1 report83 Lonsdale Street, 1 report79 Lonsdale Street, 1 report7 Lonsdale Street, 1 report67E Lonsdale Street, 1 report66 Lonsdale Street, 1 report6-8 Lonsdale Street, 1 report50 Lonsdale Street, 1 report49B Lonsdale Street, 1 report49 Lonsdale Street, 1 report46B Lonsdale Street, 1 report36 Lonsdale Street, 1 report31 Lonsdale Street, 1 report29 Lonsdale Street, 1 report28 Lonsdale Street, 1 report24 Lonsdale Street, 1 report15 Lonsdale Street, 1 report146 Lonsdale Street, 1 report141 Lonsdale Street, 1 report140B Lonsdale Street, 1 report138 Lonsdale Street, 1 report13 Lonsdale Street, 1 report126 Lonsdale Street, 1 report12 Lonsdale Street, 1 report118 Lonsdale Street, 1 report117 Lonsdale Street, 1 report103 Lonsdale Street, 1 report10 Lonsdale Street, 1 report1/107 Lonsdale Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Lonsdale Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Lonsdale Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Lonsdale Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Lonsdale 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. 77 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

The businesses on it, 1

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

The named ground

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.

New Brighton Beach beach · 76 m away Rawhiti Domain ramp · 9 m away Rawhiti Domain ramp · 17 m away New Brighton Beach set of steps · 28 m away New Brighton Beach set of steps · 47 m away Rawhiti Domain ramp · 51 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Lonsdale Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoPavement - General, a report photo more photographs
on the New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Lonsdale Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Lonsdale Street?

121 reports at 54 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (41), roads & footpaths (28), trees & parks (20).

When was Lonsdale Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 107 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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