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Britannia Street

45 reports at 17 addresses in North New Brighton, the first in 2016, the latest 2025. 44 separate days somebody filed something about it.

45 reports17 addresses44 days reported onfrom the air, then12 documents carry the namethe 1425th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

35 Britannia Street, 18 reports4 Britannia Street, 4 reports7B Britannia Street, 3 reports7 Britannia Street, 3 reports42 Britannia Street, 3 reports78 Britannia Street, 2 reports33 Britannia Street, 2 reports76 Britannia Street, 1 report62 Britannia Street, 1 report56 Britannia Street, 1 report50 Britannia Street, 1 report49 Britannia Street, 1 report46 Britannia Street, 1 report40 Britannia Street, 1 report32 Britannia Street, 1 report23 Britannia Street, 1 report20 Britannia Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Britannia Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Britannia Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Britannia Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Britannia Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Britannia 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. 12 on the shelf; the 11 earliest:

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 · 349 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Britannia Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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

General Request, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoTrees - General, a report photo more photographs
on the North New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Britannia Street?

In North New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Britannia Street?

45 reports at 17 addresses, most often trees & parks (13), graffiti & vandalism (11), rubbish & dumping (8).

When was Britannia Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 44 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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