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Mafeking Street

35 reports at 16 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 33 separate days somebody filed something about it.

35 reports16 addresses33 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 1744th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

13 Mafeking Street, 5 reports5 Mafeking Street, 4 reports9 Mafeking Street, 3 reports19 Mafeking Street, 3 reports18 Mafeking Street, 3 reports16 Mafeking Street, 3 reports12 Mafeking Street, 3 reports20 Mafeking Street, 2 reports10 Mafeking Street, 2 reports6 Mafeking Street, 1 report4 Mafeking Street, 1 report21 Mafeking Street, 1 report18-20 Mafeking Street, 1 report17 Mafeking Street, 1 report15 Mafeking Street, 1 report11 Mafeking Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Mafeking Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Mafeking Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mafeking Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mafeking 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 places within 350 m of a reported pin, the open map’s record.

New Brighton Beach beach · 240 m away New Brighton Pier pier · 277 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

Rubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Light Outage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Mafeking Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Mafeking Street?

35 reports at 16 addresses, most often vehicles & parking (11), rubbish & dumping (9), graffiti & vandalism (6).

When was Mafeking Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 33 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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