chch.live a street, in depth

Purchas Street

108 reports at 51 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 87 separate days somebody filed something about it.

108 reports51 addresses87 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the namethe 806th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

70A Purchas Street, 8 reports84 Purchas Street, 5 reports26 Purchas Street, 5 reports19 Purchas Street, 5 reports86 Purchas Street, 4 reports69 Purchas Street, 4 reports38 Purchas Street, 4 reports83 Purchas Street, 3 reports67 Purchas Street, 3 reports64 Purchas Street, 3 reports5 Purchas Street, 3 reports47 Purchas Street, 3 reports36 Purchas Street, 3 reports27 Purchas Street, 3 reports87 Purchas Street, 2 reports85 Purchas Street, 2 reports84-68 Purchas Street, 2 reports63 Purchas Street, 2 reports60 Purchas Street, 2 reports52 Purchas Street, 2 reports45E Purchas Street, 2 reports43A Purchas Street, 2 reports37B Purchas Street, 2 reports31A Purchas Street, 2 reports30A Purchas Street, 2 reports26–30 Purchas Street, 2 reports23A Purchas Street, 2 reports2 Purchas Street, 2 reports15 Purchas Street, 2 reports82 Purchas Street, 1 report81 Purchas Street, 1 report80 Purchas Street, 1 report74-72 Purchas Street, 1 report72-80 Purchas Street, 1 report70B Purchas Street, 1 report7-31 Purchas Street, 1 report65 Purchas Street, 1 report62 Purchas Street, 1 report59 Purchas Street, 1 report45 Purchas Street, 1 report43C Purchas Street, 1 report43 Purchas Street, 1 report3–5 Purchas Street, 1 report34 Purchas Street, 1 report32 Purchas Street, 1 report31D Purchas Street, 1 report31B Purchas Street, 1 report29 Purchas Street, 1 report28 Purchas Street, 1 report23 Purchas Street, 1 report20 Purchas Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Purchas Street in 44 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 9 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

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoPothole, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Purchas Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Purchas Street?

108 reports at 51 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (29), rubbish & dumping (28), roads & footpaths (28).

When was Purchas Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 87 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

Every street the archive knows → · Saint Albans → · This street as a feed →