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Essex Street

170 reports at 32 addresses in Phillipstown, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 115 separate days somebody filed something about it.

170 reports32 addresses115 days reported onfrom the air, then37 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 605th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

41 Essex Street, 21 reports15 Essex Street, 18 reports38 Essex Street, 17 reports14 Essex Street, 12 reports5 Essex Street, 10 reports24 Essex Street, 9 reports55 Essex Street, 8 reports35 Essex Street, 8 reports39 Essex Street, 7 reports63A Essex Street, 6 reports26 Essex Street, 6 reports23 Essex Street, 6 reports67 Essex Street, 5 reports62 Essex Street, 5 reports24B Essex Street, 5 reports27 Essex Street, 4 reports19 Essex Street, 4 reports71 Essex Street, 3 reports37 Essex Street, 3 reports9 Essex Street, 1 report69 Essex Street, 1 report68 Essex Street, 1 report60 Essex Street, 1 report57 Essex Street, 1 report52 Essex Street, 1 report36 Essex Street, 1 report31 Essex Street, 1 report29 Essex Street, 1 report28 Essex Street, 1 report24a Essex Street, 1 report21 Essex Street, 1 report20 Essex Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Essex Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Essex Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Essex Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Essex 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 →

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. 37 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 Essex Street, the commercial record alongside the civic 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 fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Phillipstown wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Essex Street?

In Phillipstown, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Essex Street?

170 reports at 32 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (94), rubbish & dumping (35), water & drains (14).

When was Essex Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 115 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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