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Albany Street

15 reports at 12 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 15 separate days somebody filed something about it.

15 reports12 addresses15 days reported onfrom the air, then101 documents carry the namethe 2737th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

21 Albany Street, 3 reports47 Albany Street, 2 reports7E Albany Street, 1 report7 Albany Street, 1 report34 Albany Street, 1 report33B Albany Street, 1 report32D Albany Street, 1 report28 Albany Street, 1 report25 Albany Street, 1 report24 Albany Street, 1 report17 Albany Street, 1 report12 Albany Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Albany Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Albany Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Albany Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Albany 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. 101 on the shelf; the 12 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.

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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Albany Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Albany Street?

15 reports at 12 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (5), water & drains (3), graffiti & vandalism (3).

When was Albany Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 15 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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