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Bristol Street

127 reports at 52 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 106 separate days somebody filed something about it.

127 reports52 addresses106 days reported onfrom the air, then135 documents carry the namethe 665th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

128 Bristol Street, 9 reports90 Bristol Street, 7 reports69 Bristol Street, 6 reports15 Bristol Street, 6 reports74 Bristol Street, 5 reports64 Bristol Street, 4 reports42 Bristol Street, 4 reports34 Bristol Street, 4 reports14 Bristol Street, 4 reports135 Bristol Street, 4 reports117 Bristol Street, 4 reports84 Bristol Street, 3 reports48 Bristol Street, 3 reports30 Bristol Street, 3 reports29 Bristol Street, 3 reports2 Bristol Street, 3 reports138 Bristol Street, 3 reports122 Bristol Street, 3 reports115 Bristol Street, 3 reports110 Bristol Street, 3 reports102 Bristol Street, 3 reports98 Bristol Street, 2 reports96 Bristol Street, 2 reports93 Bristol Street, 2 reports86-90 Bristol Street, 2 reports78 Bristol Street, 2 reports48D Bristol Street, 2 reports4 Bristol Street, 2 reports31E Bristol Street, 2 reports103 Bristol Street, 2 reports99 Bristol Street, 1 report97 Bristol Street, 1 report92 Bristol Street, 1 report8 Bristol Street, 1 report75 Bristol Street, 1 report73 Bristol Street, 1 report71 Bristol Street, 1 report64a Bristol Street, 1 report64A Bristol Street, 1 report61 Bristol Street, 1 report53-67 Bristol Street, 1 report40 Bristol Street, 1 report36 Bristol Street, 1 report28 Bristol Street, 1 report17 Bristol Street, 1 report14-20 Bristol Street, 1 report132 Bristol Street, 1 report129 Bristol Street, 1 report126 Bristol Street, 1 report120 Bristol Street, 1 report112 Bristol Street, 1 report107 Bristol Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Bristol Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bristol Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bristol 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. 135 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Saint Albans Creek stream · 4 m away Abberley Park set of steps · 147 m away Abberley Park footbridge · 150 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Bristol Street in 2 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Bristol Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Bristol Street?

127 reports at 52 addresses, most often water & drains (45), graffiti & vandalism (25), rubbish & dumping (20).

When was Bristol Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 106 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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