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Watford Street

34 reports at 23 addresses in Strowan, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 34 separate days somebody filed something about it.

34 reports23 addresses34 days reported onfrom the air, then5 documents carry the namethe 1728th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

119 Watford Street, 4 reports95 Watford Street, 3 reports88 Watford Street, 2 reports85 Watford Street, 2 reports69 Watford Street, 2 reports63 Watford Street, 2 reports33 Watford Street, 2 reports23 Watford Street, 2 reports92 Watford Street, 1 report77A Watford Street, 1 report75 Watford Street, 1 report74 Watford Street, 1 report70 Watford Street, 1 report7 Watford Street, 1 report39 Watford Street, 1 report35 Watford Street, 1 report28 Watford Street, 1 report129 Watford Street, 1 report126 Watford Street, 1 report12 Watford Street, 1 report118B Watford Street, 1 report117 Watford Street, 1 report116 Watford Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Watford Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Watford Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Watford Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Watford 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 →

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Strowan Stream stream · 101 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Watford Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Abandoned Vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoTrees - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Strowan wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Watford Street?

In Strowan, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Watford Street?

34 reports at 23 addresses, most often water & drains (10), roads & footpaths (7), trees & parks (7).

When was Watford Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 34 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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