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Knowles Street

98 reports at 53 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 90 separate days somebody filed something about it.

98 reports53 addresses90 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then28 documents carry the namethe 777th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

180A Knowles Street, 6 reports180 Knowles Street, 6 reports228A Knowles Street, 4 reports232 Knowles Street, 3 reports214 Knowles Street, 3 reports209 Knowles Street, 3 reports182 Knowles Street, 3 reports181 Knowles Street, 3 reports180R Knowles Street, 3 reports12 Knowles Street, 3 reports110 Knowles Street, 3 reports109 Knowles Street, 3 reports94 Knowles Street, 2 reports88 Knowles Street, 2 reports81 Knowles Street, 2 reports53 Knowles Street, 2 reports43 Knowles Street, 2 reports27 Knowles Street, 2 reports25 Knowles Street, 2 reports215 Knowles Street, 2 reports208 Knowles Street, 2 reports192 Knowles Street, 2 reports189 Knowles Street, 2 reports11 Knowles Street, 2 reports107 Knowles Street, 2 reports1 Knowles Street, 2 reports72 Knowles Street, 1 report69 Knowles Street, 1 report61 Knowles Street, 1 report56 Knowles Street, 1 report217 Knowles Street, 1 report212A Knowles Street, 1 report206 Knowles Street, 1 report201 Knowles Street, 1 report180r Knowles Street, 1 report179 Knowles Street, 1 report178 Knowles Street, 1 report177 Knowles Street, 1 report172 Knowles Street, 1 report171 Knowles Street, 1 report16 Knowles Street, 1 report15A Knowles Street, 1 report159 Knowles Street, 1 report157 Knowles Street, 1 report151 Knowles Street, 1 report15 Knowles Street, 1 report141 Knowles Street, 1 report140 Knowles Street, 1 report134 Knowles Street, 1 report133 Knowles Street, 1 report127 Knowles Street, 1 report121 Knowles Street, 1 report113 Knowles Street, 1 reportDwelling and Setting, Cobham: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Knowles Street, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Saint Albans.

From the air, then

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

On the register

On foot, The old north road walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 28 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.

Saint Albans Creek stream · 6 m away Strowan Stream stream · 71 m away Dudley Creek stream · 110 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Knowles Street in 7 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 General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoAnimal - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoFlooding, a report photoPothole, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Knowles Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Knowles Street?

98 reports at 53 addresses, most often water & drains (24), roads & footpaths (21), trees & parks (21).

When was Knowles Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 90 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Knowles Street?

Dwelling and Setting, Cobham.

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