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Cashel Street

138 reports at 26 addresses in Phillipstown, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 111 separate days somebody filed something about it.

138 reports26 addresses111 days reported onfrom the air, thenthen / now4,580 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 631st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

528 Cashel Street, 32 reports510 Cashel Street, 17 reports520 Cashel Street, 12 reports576 Cashel Street, 10 reports640 Cashel Street, 9 reports486 Cashel Street, 7 reports446 Cashel Street, 7 reports378 Cashel Street, 6 reports408 Cashel Street, 4 reports376 Cashel Street, 4 reports636 Cashel Street, 3 reports530 Cashel Street, 3 reports460 Cashel Street, 3 reports428 Cashel Street, 3 reports380 Cashel Street, 3 reports508 Cashel Street, 2 reports456 Cashel Street, 2 reports372 Cashel Street, 2 reports3/446 Cashel Street, 2 reports620 Cashel Street, 1 report566 Cashel Street, 1 report525 Cashel Street, 1 report519 Cashel Street, 1 report490 Cashel Street, 1 report468 Cashel Street, 1 report464 Cashel Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Cashel Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cashel Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cashel Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cashel Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, 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 →

Then and now

Early Oxford Street seen from Cashel Street
Then, 1868 · Early Oxford Street seen from Cashel Street
Now: Google Street View, 2025-03

The photograph names Cashel Street in its title and its copy is hosted under the source record’s stated rights, it opens that record. The frame is the street as it stands, the pose the QC bank verified (outside Bohemian Bakery). The whole collection, oldest first →

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. 4,580 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cashel Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Cashel Street & Fitzgerald Avenue, 25 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Phillipstown wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Cashel Street?

In Phillipstown, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cashel Street?

138 reports at 26 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (77), graffiti & vandalism (34), trees & parks (11).

When was Cashel Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 111 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Cashel Street?

Cashel Street and Fitzgerald Avenue, 25 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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