Hope Street
32 reports at 19 addresses in Shirley, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 32 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Hope Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Shirley.
From the air, then
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
- 10 Hope Street, 4 reports
- 9A Hope Street, 3 reports
- 59 Hope Street, 3 reports
- 2A Hope Street, 3 reports
- 42 Hope Street, 2 reports
- 37 Hope Street, 2 reports
- 36 Hope Street, 2 reports
- 19 Hope Street, 2 reports
- 7 Hope Street, 1 report
- 6B Hope Street, 1 report
- 60 Hope Street, 1 report
- 55 Hope Street, 1 report
- 52 Hope Street, 1 report
- 50 Hope Street, 1 report
- 38 Hope Street, 1 report
- 26 Hope Street, 1 report
- 15 Hope Street, 1 report
- 11 Hope Street, 1 report
- 1/59 Hope Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 8 reports
- Water & drains, 7 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 6 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 5 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 4 reports
- Trees & parks, 2 reports
Year by year
- 2015, 1 report
- 2016, 1 report
- 2019, 1 report
- 2020, 2 reports
- 2021, 3 reports
- 2022, 2 reports
- 2023, 6 reports
- 2024, 6 reports
- 2025, 9 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 42 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:
- THE Otago Daily Times. (Otago Daily Times, 07 November 1864)
· Papers Past,
…p the latter as the club house high street to the catting manse street stafford street to hope street and walker street from the same poiat downwards the funeral of the late mr james burns w was a mem…
- News of the Week. (Otago Witness, 12 November 1864)
· Papers Past,
…p the latter as the club house high street to the cutting manse street stafford street to hope street and walker street from the same point downwards the funeral of the late mr james burns who was a m…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 (Otago Daily Times, 28 January 1871)
· Papers Past,
…lassify and scour wool at current rates 220 oargill and lanseigne pate nix wool warehouse hope street dunedehv for the nfoimation of wool growers and shippers i beg to intimate that i am prepared to r…
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.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Hope Street in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
- CHARITY SUNDAY. (Star, 14 October 1882) · Star,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 (Evening Post, 28 July 1883) · Evening Post,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 05 July 1893) · Star,
- City Council. (Star, 30 July 1895) · Star,
- CHRISTCHURCH SUBSCRIPTIONS. (Star, 04 April 1896) · Star,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Evening Post, 01 December 1900) · Evening Post,
- MISCELLANEOUS. (Colonist, 16 October 1905) · Colonist,
- DEATHS. (Otago Daily Times 18-8-1917) · Otago Daily Times,
- MESS PROPERTY. (Feilding Star, 05 September 1919) · Feilding Star,
- CLEVER CHILDREN (Evening Post, 24 December 1926) · Evening Post,
- CHILDREN'S COMPETITION (Evening Post, 12 January 1927) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 02 March 1935) · Evening Post,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Ellesmere Guardian, 25 October 1935) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Evening Post, 01 September 1936) · Evening Post,
- YOU NEVER KNOW" (Evening Post, 09 May 1939) · Evening Post,
- HERE and THERE- (Evening Post, 13 December 1940) · Evening Post,
- ART UNION DRAWN (Evening Post, 19 December 1940) · Evening Post,
- Southbridge (Ellesmere Guardian, 18 May 1943) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- PRINCESS JULIANA (Evening Post, 06 November 1943) · Evening Post,
- ENGAGEMENTS (Evening Post, 09 December 1944) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Pavement - Damaged, 60 Hope St,
- Abandoned Vehicle, 15 Hope St,
- Dumped Rubbish, 50 Hope Street,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 2A Hope Street,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 9A Hope Street,
- Road Signage, 6B Hope Street,
- Accessibility, 2A Hope Street,
- Water Leak, 36 Hope Street,
- Water Leak, 38 Hope Street,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 2A Hope Street,
- Hazard, vehicle, 59 Hope Street,
- Hazard, vehicle, 59 Hope Street,
- Hazard, vehicle, 52 Hope Street,
- Hazard, vehicle, 59 Hope Street,
- Damaged Street Sign, 37 Hope Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Shirley, Christchurch, New Zealand.
32 reports at 19 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (8), water & drains (7), roads & footpaths (6).
2015, the record covers 32 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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