Denman Street

31 reports at 11 addresses in Sumner, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 29 separate days somebody filed something about it.

31 reports 11 addresses29 days reported onfrom the air, then 3 documents carry the namethe 1920th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Denman Street from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

Denman Street from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Denman Street from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · 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

24 Denman Street, 8 reports
25 Denman Street, 5 reports
3 Denman Street, 3 reports
21 Denman Street, 3 reports
2 Denman Street, 3 reports
20 Denman Street, 2 reports
18B Denman Street, 2 reports
18A Denman Street, 2 reports
23 Denman Street, 1 report
19 Denman Street, 1 report
16 Denman Street, 1 report

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 10 reports
Trees & parks, 9 reports
Water & drains, 7 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 5 reports

Year by year

2017, 1 report
2020, 2 reports
2021, 3 reports
2022, 7 reports
2023, 4 reports
2024, 4 reports
2025, 7 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

FURTHER LISTS OF MISSING (Evening Post, 30 May 1941) · Papers Past, 30 May 1941
…rs a p craig 46 liverpool street epsom m crampton leslie herbert dvr mrs f jr crampton 21 denman street sumner christchurch m crawford karu pte mr m crawford aiangatuna tolaga bay f crisp william cald…
PRISONERS OF WAR (Evening Post, 30 June 1941) · Papers Past, 30 Jun 1941
…j courlander 10 rahiri road mount eden w crampton leslie herbert dvr mrs f b crampton 21 denman street sumner m cumming john dvr mr r e cumming 31 montrose street christchurch f currie gordon raymond…
In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 8 Jun 2006
…hn, beneficiary, of 7 Grey Street, Whangarei, at 9.40 a.m.Whyte, Carrie, homemaker, of 14 Denman Street, Sumner, Christchurch, at 12.30 p.m.Wilson, Aaron Dale, spray painter, of 24 Ashwell Drive, Port…

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Denman Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

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.