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Templar Street

23 reports at 9 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 21 separate days somebody filed something about it.

23 reports9 addresses21 days reported onfrom the air, then9 documents carry the namethe 2299th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

5 Templar Street, 8 reports7 Templar Street, 3 reports22 Templar Street, 3 reports15 Templar Street, 3 reports9 Templar Street, 2 reports8 Templar Street, 1 report20 Templar Street, 1 report19 Templar Street, 1 report18 Templar Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 27 m away Avon Corridor 1 Rrz Land set of steps · 96 m away

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 Fountain, a report photoWater Fountain, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Fountain, a report photoWater Fountain, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photo more photographs
on the Richmond wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Templar Street?

In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Templar Street?

23 reports at 9 addresses, most often water & drains (7), graffiti & vandalism (6), rubbish & dumping (5).

When was Templar Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 21 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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