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Blake Street

7 reports at 1 address in South New Brighton, the first in 2024, the latest 2025. 7 separate days somebody filed something about it.

7 reports1 address7 days reported onfrom the air, then33 documents carry the namethe 3764th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

83 Blake Street, 7 reports

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

From the air, then

Blake Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Blake Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Blake Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Blake Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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. 33 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

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

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Blake Street?

In South New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Blake Street?

7 reports at 1 address, most often rubbish & dumping (3), everything else (2), trees & parks (2).

When was Blake Street first reported on?

2024, the record covers 7 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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