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Dover Street

54 reports at 33 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 53 separate days somebody filed something about it.

54 reports33 addresses53 days reported onfrom the air, then54 documents carry the namethe 1247th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

7 Dover Street, 7 reports37 Dover Street, 4 reports30 Dover Street, 4 reports65 Dover Street, 3 reports52 Dover Street, 3 reports27 Dover Street, 3 reports24E Dover Street, 3 reports36 Dover Street, 2 reports95 Dover Street, 1 report88 Dover Street, 1 report83 Dover Street, 1 report80 Dover Street, 1 report8 Dover Street, 1 report79 Dover Street, 1 report73 Dover Street, 1 report72 Dover Street, 1 report61B Dover Street, 1 report61 Dover Street, 1 report54 Dover Street, 1 report49 Dover Street, 1 report46 Dover Street, 1 report44 Dover Street, 1 report42 Dover Street, 1 report40 Dover Street, 1 report38–50 Dover Street, 1 report34 Dover Street, 1 report26 Dover Street, 1 report23–31 Dover Street, 1 report22 Dover Street, 1 report20 Dover Street, 1 report16 Dover Street, 1 report12 Dover Street, 1 report11 Dover Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Dover Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dover Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dover Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Dover 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. 54 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 · 2 m away English Park Stadium shelter · 67 m away English Park Stadium shelter · 73 m away English Park Stadium shelter · 79 m away English Park Stadium viewing platform · 147 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Blockage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Dover Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Dover Street?

54 reports at 33 addresses, most often water & drains (19), rubbish & dumping (14), roads & footpaths (8).

When was Dover Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 53 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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