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Cooke Street

57 reports at 19 addresses in Somerfield, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 53 separate days somebody filed something about it.

57 reports19 addresses53 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 1249th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Cooke Street, 12 reports2 Cooke Street, 10 reports11A Cooke Street, 6 reports7 Cooke Street, 4 reports11B Cooke Street, 4 reports15A Cooke Street, 3 reports11 Cooke Street, 3 reports8 Cooke Street, 2 reports24 Cooke Street, 2 reports10 Cooke Street, 2 reports9A Cooke Street, 1 report7C Cooke Street, 1 report5 Cooke Street, 1 report4 Cooke Street, 1 report3 Cooke Street, 1 report16 Cooke Street, 1 report15B Cooke Street, 1 report121 Cooke Street, 1 report11C Cooke Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Cooke Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cooke Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cooke 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 →

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 Cooke Street?

In Somerfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cooke Street?

57 reports at 19 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (17), water & drains (10), trees & parks (9).

When was Cooke Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 53 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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