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Thorpe Street

3 council reports at 3 addresses on Thorpe Street, Sumner, on record since September 2020.

3 reports3 addresses3 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the name

Where it runs

9 Thorpe Street, 1 report7 Thorpe Street, 1 report1 Thorpe Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Thorpe Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · 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 numbered spots

What got reported

Year by year

2026 was still in progress when this page was drawn and is left off.

Documents that name it

Records on the shelf that name Thorpe Street.

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

As it was reported

Latest on record

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Thorpe Street?

In Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Thorpe Street?

3 reports at 3 addresses, most often water & drains (2), roads & footpaths (1).

When was Thorpe Street first reported on?

2020, the record covers 3 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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