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Durham Street North

148 reports at 38 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 114 separate days somebody filed something about it.

148 reports38 addresses114 days reported onfrom the air, then402 documents carry the namethe 611th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

483 Durham Street North, 29 reports444 Durham Street North, 17 reports462 Durham Street North, 10 reports460 Durham Street North, 7 reports481 Durham Street North, 6 reports452B Durham Street North, 6 reports493 Durham Street North, 5 reports452A Durham Street North, 5 reports489 Durham Street North, 4 reports469 Durham Street North, 4 reports459 Durham Street North, 4 reports457 Durham Street North, 4 reports505 Durham Street North, 3 reports467 Durham Street North, 3 reports458D Durham Street North, 3 reports453 Durham Street North, 3 reports449 Durham Street North, 3 reports4/511 Durham Street North, 3 reports479 Durham Street North, 2 reports477 Durham Street North, 2 reports470B Durham Street North, 2 reports470A Durham Street North, 2 reports466 Durham Street North, 2 reports456A Durham Street North, 2 reports452C Durham Street North, 2 reports452 Durham Street North, 2 reports447 Durham Street North, 2 reports503 Durham Street North, 1 report491 Durham Street North, 1 report489-511 Durham Street North, 1 report487 Durham Street North, 1 report471 Durham Street North, 1 report463 Durham Street North, 1 report456C Durham Street North, 1 report455-465 Durham Street North, 1 report454A Durham Street North, 1 report438 Durham Street North, 1 report3/467 Durham Street North, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Durham Street North from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Durham Street North from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Durham Street North 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. 402 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Durham Street North in 3 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

Water Leak, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Durham Street North?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Durham Street North?

148 reports at 38 addresses, most often water & drains (70), graffiti & vandalism (35), roads & footpaths (26).

When was Durham Street North first reported on?

2016, the record covers 114 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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