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Mersey Street

84 reports at 36 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 72 separate days somebody filed something about it.

84 reports36 addresses72 days reported onfrom the air, then17 documents carry the namethe 953rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

95 Mersey Street, 18 reports89 Mersey Street, 8 reports101 Mersey Street, 5 reports38 Mersey Street, 3 reports26 Mersey Street, 3 reports11 Mersey Street, 3 reports1 Mersey Street, 3 reports90 Mersey Street, 2 reports84 Mersey Street, 2 reports80 Mersey Street, 2 reports78 Mersey Street, 2 reports65 Mersey Street, 2 reports49 Mersey Street, 2 reports24 Mersey Street, 2 reports22 Mersey Street, 2 reports152 Mersey Street, 2 reports137 Mersey Street, 2 reports128 Mersey Street, 2 reports11A Mersey Street, 2 reports98 Mersey Street, 1 report7 Mersey Street, 1 report6 Mersey Street, 1 report54 Mersey Street, 1 report47 Mersey Street, 1 report44 Mersey Street, 1 report42 Mersey Street, 1 report36 Mersey Street, 1 report27 Mersey Street, 1 report23 Mersey Street, 1 report2 Mersey Street, 1 report17 Mersey Street, 1 report16 Mersey Street, 1 report142 Mersey Street, 1 report129 Mersey Street, 1 report124 Mersey Street, 1 report117 Mersey Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Mersey Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mersey Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mersey Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mersey 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. 17 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 Mersey Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Overgrown Vegetation, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Mersey Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Mersey Street?

84 reports at 36 addresses, most often trees & parks (22), roads & footpaths (21), water & drains (20).

When was Mersey Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 72 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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