Dobson Street
7 reports at 2 addresses in Somerfield, the first in 2024, the latest 2026. 7 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 Dobson Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Somerfield.
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
- 2 Dobson Street, 6 reports
- 6A Dobson Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 6 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 1 report
Year by year
- 2024, 6 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 14 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 25 June 1900)
· Papers Past,
…justified in refusing to take the pump when scott bios had refused to produce the invoice dobson stated that previous to scott bros tender hehad had a quotation from the new zealand agents for the pum…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 06 September 1918)
· Papers Past,
…n j f s 81415 olr mrs f j brown lancaster-street karori w i bird j r 45467 cpl 01 r mrs j dobson stratford mfarlane 8w 83682 sgt 01 r mrs a mfarlane johnsonville in osborne s 17045 l-cpl 01r mrs e osb…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Somerfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.
7 reports at 2 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (6), roads & footpaths (1).
2024, the record covers 7 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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