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Marlborough Street

111 reports at 21 addresses in Phillipstown, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 92 separate days somebody filed something about it.

111 reports21 addresses92 days reported onfrom the air, then59 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 759th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

34 Marlborough Street, 20 reports1 Marlborough Street, 14 reports34E Marlborough Street, 9 reports14 Marlborough Street, 8 reports11 Marlborough Street, 8 reports32 Marlborough Street, 7 reports6 Marlborough Street, 6 reports10 Marlborough Street, 6 reports2A Marlborough Street, 5 reports25 Marlborough Street, 4 reports5 Marlborough Street, 3 reports29-33 Marlborough Street, 3 reports20 Marlborough Street, 3 reports2 Marlborough Street, 3 reports18 Marlborough Street, 3 reports16 Marlborough Street, 2 reports13 Marlborough Street, 2 reports12 Marlborough Street, 2 reports33 Marlborough Street, 1 report27 Marlborough Street, 1 report19 Marlborough Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Marlborough Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Marlborough Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Marlborough 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. 59 on the shelf; the 1 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 Marlborough Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Marlborough Street in 19 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

Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Phillipstown wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Marlborough Street?

In Phillipstown, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Marlborough Street?

111 reports at 21 addresses, most often water & drains (35), graffiti & vandalism (25), rubbish & dumping (23).

When was Marlborough Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 92 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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