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London Street

402 reports at 62 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 311 separate days somebody filed something about it.

402 reports62 addresses311 days reported onfrom the air, then1,664 documents carry the name4 businessesthe 149th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

78 London Street, 35 reports26 London Street, 25 reports68 London Street, 24 reports74 London Street, 17 reports50 London Street, 17 reports35 London Street, 15 reports33 London Street, 14 reports52 London Street, 12 reports44 London Street, 12 reports34 London Street, 12 reports18 London Street, 12 reports30 London Street, 11 reports7 London Street, 10 reports69 London Street, 10 reports43 London Street, 10 reports66E London Street, 9 reports65 London Street, 9 reports62 London Street, 9 reports11 London Street, 9 reports36 London Street, 8 reports33A London Street, 8 reports73 London Street, 7 reports56 London Street, 7 reports41 London Street, 5 reports39 London Street, 5 reports27 London Street, 5 reports12 London Street, 5 reports57A London Street, 4 reports37 London Street, 4 reports29 London Street, 4 reports20 London Street, 4 reports15 London Street, 4 reports14 London Street, 4 reports1 London Street, 4 reports73-75 London Street, 3 reports63 London Street, 3 reports53 London Street, 3 reports50A London Street, 3 reports5 London Street, 3 reports3/47 London Street, 3 reports19 London Street, 3 reports10 London Street, 3 reports75A London Street, 2 reports75 London Street, 2 reports69-73 London Street, 2 reports66D London Street, 2 reports47 London Street, 2 reports34-24 London Street, 2 reports23 London Street, 2 reports21 London Street, 2 reports71 London Street, 1 report67 London Street, 1 report66 London Street, 1 report57 London Street, 1 report55 London Street, 1 report51 London Street, 1 report50B London Street, 1 report38 London Street, 1 report33B London Street, 1 report25 London Street, 1 report24 London Street, 1 report20A London Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

and the other 2 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 1,664 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 4

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names London Street in 14 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

Animal - Deceased, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoFlooding, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photo more photographs
on the Richmond wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is London Street?

In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on London Street?

402 reports at 62 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (138), rubbish & dumping (82), roads & footpaths (69).

When was London Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 311 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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