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Somme Street

29 reports at 22 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 25 separate days somebody filed something about it.

29 reports22 addresses25 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the namethe 2084th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2 Somme Street, 3 reports58 Somme Street, 2 reports47 Somme Street, 2 reports41 Somme Street, 2 reports29A Somme Street, 2 reports25 Somme Street, 2 reports60 Somme Street, 1 report52 Somme Street, 1 report51 Somme Street, 1 report44 Somme Street, 1 report42 Somme Street, 1 report40B Somme Street, 1 report38 Somme Street, 1 report34 Somme Street, 1 report31 Somme Street, 1 report26 Somme Street, 1 report22A Somme Street, 1 report20A Somme Street, 1 report19 Somme Street, 1 report18A Somme Street, 1 report15 Somme Street, 1 report11 Somme Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Somme Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Somme Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Somme Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Somme 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 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 · 29 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Somme Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Water Leak, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoFlooding, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Somme Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Somme Street?

29 reports at 22 addresses, most often water & drains (12), roads & footpaths (11), vehicles & parking (2).

When was Somme Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 25 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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