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Webb Street

47 reports at 23 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 42 separate days somebody filed something about it.

47 reports23 addresses42 days reported onfrom the air, then85 documents carry the namethe 1490th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

34 Webb Street, 6 reports50 Webb Street, 5 reports4 Webb Street, 4 reports33 Webb Street, 4 reports5 Webb Street, 3 reports15A Webb Street, 3 reports9 Webb Street, 2 reports51 Webb Street, 2 reports31 Webb Street, 2 reports21 Webb Street, 2 reports16 Webb Street, 2 reports7 Webb Street, 1 report39 Webb Street, 1 report38B Webb Street, 1 report35 Webb Street, 1 report29A Webb Street, 1 report29 Webb Street, 1 report28-32 Webb Street, 1 report25 Webb Street, 1 report20-4 Webb Street, 1 report17 Webb Street, 1 report16A Webb Street, 1 report10 Webb Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Webb Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Webb Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Webb 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. 85 on the shelf; the 2 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.

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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Webb Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Webb Street?

47 reports at 23 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (15), roads & footpaths (11), water & drains (9).

When was Webb Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 42 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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