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Stoke Street

30 reports at 19 addresses in Sumner, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 29 separate days somebody filed something about it.

30 reports19 addresses29 days reported onfrom the air, then29 documents carry the namethe 1921st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

4 Stoke Street, 3 reports3 Stoke Street, 3 reports6 Stoke Street, 2 reports44 Stoke Street, 2 reports37A Stoke Street, 2 reports36 Stoke Street, 2 reports32 Stoke Street, 2 reports30 Stoke Street, 2 reports12 Stoke Street, 2 reports9 Stoke Street, 1 report7 Stoke Street, 1 report6A Stoke Street, 1 report5 Stoke Street, 1 report42 Stoke Street, 1 report39 Stoke Street, 1 report31 Stoke Street, 1 report25 Stoke Street, 1 report13 Stoke Street, 1 report10 Stoke Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Stoke Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Stoke Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Stoke 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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 29 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Matuku-takotako / Sumner Beach beach · 80 m away Port Hills 11 Rrz Land shelter · 26 m away Marriner St And Flowers Track ramp · 83 m away Port Hills 11 Rrz Land shelter · 95 m away Scarborough Beach Developed set of steps · 100 m away Port Hills 11 Rrz Land shelter · 132 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Stoke Street in 3 crashes 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.

As it was reported

Trees - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoWater General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti, a report photo more photographs
on the Sumner wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Stoke Street?

In Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Stoke Street?

30 reports at 19 addresses, most often water & drains (9), roads & footpaths (9), trees & parks (8).

When was Stoke Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 29 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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