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Forth Street

50 reports at 18 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 44 separate days somebody filed something about it.

50 reports18 addresses44 days reported onfrom the air, then72 documents carry the namethe 1428th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

43 Forth Street, 13 reports3 Forth Street, 6 reports40 Forth Street, 4 reports12 Forth Street, 4 reports25 Forth Street, 3 reports18 Forth Street, 3 reports11 Forth Street, 3 reports10 Forth Street, 3 reports20 Forth Street, 2 reports9 Forth Street, 1 report39 Forth Street, 1 report36 Forth Street, 1 report28A Forth Street, 1 report27 Forth Street, 1 report24 Forth Street, 1 report21 Forth Street, 1 report2/14 Forth Street, 1 report15 Forth Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Forth Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Forth Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Forth 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. 72 on the shelf; the 7 earliest:

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

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avebury Park ramp · 129 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Forth Street in 5 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

Water Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Richmond wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Forth Street?

In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Forth Street?

50 reports at 18 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (22), graffiti & vandalism (8), roads & footpaths (6).

When was Forth Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 44 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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