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Lowther Street

19 reports at 6 addresses in Sockburn, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 15 separate days somebody filed something about it.

19 reports6 addresses15 days reported onfrom the air, then57 documents carry the name4 businessesthe 2741st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Lowther Street, 7 reports22 Lowther Street, 5 reports8/22 Lowther Street, 3 reports3 Lowther Street, 2 reports2/22 Lowther Street, 1 report1/22 Lowther Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Lowther Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Lowther Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Lowther Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Lowther 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. 57 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 4

Premises whose address in the directory is Lowther Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Lowther Street in 13 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

Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photo more photographs
on the Sockburn wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Lowther Street?

In Sockburn, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Lowther Street?

19 reports at 6 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (16), rubbish & dumping (2), roads & footpaths (1).

When was Lowther Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 15 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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