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Nicholls Street

35 reports at 21 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 30 separate days somebody filed something about it.

35 reports21 addresses30 days reported onfrom the air, then21 documents carry the namethe 1868th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

58 Nicholls Street, 5 reports52 Nicholls Street, 4 reports9 Nicholls Street, 3 reports11 Nicholls Street, 3 reports57 Nicholls Street, 2 reports26 Nicholls Street, 2 reports16A Nicholls Street, 2 reports8 Nicholls Street, 1 report55 Nicholls Street, 1 report54 Nicholls Street, 1 report53 Nicholls Street, 1 report49 Nicholls Street, 1 report47 Nicholls Street, 1 report45 Nicholls Street, 1 report44-48 Nicholls Street, 1 report44 Nicholls Street, 1 report34 Nicholls Street, 1 report32 Nicholls Street, 1 report28A Nicholls Street, 1 report27 Nicholls Street, 1 report16 Nicholls Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Nicholls Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Nicholls Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Nicholls 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. 21 on the shelf; the 11 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Saint Albans Creek stream · 82 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Nicholls Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFlooding, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFlooding, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photo more photographs
on the Richmond wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Nicholls Street?

In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Nicholls Street?

35 reports at 21 addresses, most often water & drains (16), roads & footpaths (14), rubbish & dumping (3).

When was Nicholls Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 30 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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