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Browning Street

56 reports at 19 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 50 separate days somebody filed something about it.

56 reports19 addresses50 days reported onfrom the air, then14 documents carry the namethe 1304th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Browning Street, 18 reports27 Browning Street, 6 reports22 Browning Street, 4 reports10 Browning Street, 4 reports21 Browning Street, 3 reports16 Browning Street, 3 reports36 Browning Street, 2 reports34 Browning Street, 2 reports29 Browning Street, 2 reports25 Browning Street, 2 reports14 Browning Street, 2 reports9 Browning Street, 1 report50 Browning Street, 1 report40 Browning Street, 1 report4 Browning Street, 1 report32 Browning Street, 1 report30 Browning Street, 1 report3 Browning Street, 1 report16A Browning Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Browning Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Browning Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Browning 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. 14 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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.

Jacksons Creek stream · 13 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Browning Street in 4 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

Street Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoVandalism - General, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Browning Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Browning Street?

56 reports at 19 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (20), water & drains (15), rubbish & dumping (7).

When was Browning Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 50 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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