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Aylmer Street

50 reports at 26 addresses in Somerfield, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 46 separate days somebody filed something about it.

50 reports26 addresses46 days reported onfrom the air, then16 documents carry the namethe 1381st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

38 Aylmer Street, 5 reports26 Aylmer Street, 5 reports40 Aylmer Street, 4 reports35 Aylmer Street, 4 reports33 Aylmer Street, 3 reports32 Aylmer Street, 3 reports8 Aylmer Street, 2 reports45 Aylmer Street, 2 reports34 Aylmer Street, 2 reports30B Aylmer Street, 2 reports15 Aylmer Street, 2 reports13 Aylmer Street, 2 reports49E Aylmer Street, 1 report42 Aylmer Street, 1 report41 Aylmer Street, 1 report37 Aylmer Street, 1 report36 Aylmer Street, 1 report31 Aylmer Street, 1 report30 Aylmer Street, 1 report3 Aylmer Street, 1 report28 Aylmer Street, 1 report23 Aylmer Street, 1 report22 Aylmer Street, 1 report20 Aylmer Street, 1 report16 Aylmer Street, 1 report11 Aylmer Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Aylmer Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Aylmer Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Aylmer 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. 16 on the shelf; the 12 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.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 118 m away

As it was reported

Flooding, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoSediment - Construction, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoFlooding, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photo more photographs
on the Somerfield wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Aylmer Street?

In Somerfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Aylmer Street?

50 reports at 26 addresses, most often water & drains (23), roads & footpaths (11), graffiti & vandalism (6).

When was Aylmer Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 46 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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