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Suffolk Street

116 reports at 31 addresses in Phillipstown, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 96 separate days somebody filed something about it.

116 reports31 addresses96 days reported onfrom the air, then38 documents carry the namethe 723rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

23 Suffolk Street, 22 reports2 Suffolk Street, 15 reports24 Suffolk Street, 9 reports39 Suffolk Street, 7 reports36 Suffolk Street, 6 reports33 Suffolk Street, 5 reports17 Suffolk Street, 5 reports6 Suffolk Street, 4 reports48 Suffolk Street, 4 reports25 Suffolk Street, 4 reports46 Suffolk Street, 3 reports24B Suffolk Street, 3 reports11A Suffolk Street, 3 reports50 Suffolk Street, 2 reports42 Suffolk Street, 2 reports35 Suffolk Street, 2 reports34 Suffolk Street, 2 reports29 Suffolk Street, 2 reports26 Suffolk Street, 2 reports18 Suffolk Street, 2 reports14 Suffolk Street, 2 reports5 Suffolk Street, 1 report40 Suffolk Street, 1 report38 Suffolk Street, 1 report30 Suffolk Street, 1 report27 Suffolk Street, 1 report20-24 Suffolk Street, 1 report16 Suffolk Street, 1 report15A Suffolk Street, 1 report15 Suffolk Street, 1 report13 Suffolk Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Suffolk Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Suffolk Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Suffolk Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Suffolk 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. 38 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Suffolk Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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 fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti 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 photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, 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 Suffolk Street?

In Phillipstown, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Suffolk Street?

116 reports at 31 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (66), roads & footpaths (13), graffiti & vandalism (13).

When was Suffolk Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 96 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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