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Croydon Street

109 reports at 30 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 90 separate days somebody filed something about it.

109 reports30 addresses90 days reported onfrom the air, then25 documents carry the namethe 779th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

5 Croydon Street, 18 reports12B Croydon Street, 9 reports23 Croydon Street, 8 reports34 Croydon Street, 7 reports25 Croydon Street, 5 reports19 Croydon Street, 5 reports10 Croydon Street, 5 reports40A Croydon Street, 4 reports36 Croydon Street, 4 reports32 Croydon Street, 4 reports16A Croydon Street, 4 reports32A Croydon Street, 3 reports31a Croydon Street, 3 reports19-23 Croydon Street, 3 reports18 Croydon Street, 3 reports7 Croydon Street, 2 reports48 Croydon Street, 2 reports44 Croydon Street, 2 reports42 Croydon Street, 2 reports40 Croydon Street, 2 reports27 Croydon Street, 2 reports26 Croydon Street, 2 reports14 Croydon Street, 2 reports10A Croydon Street, 2 reports50 Croydon Street, 1 report28A Croydon Street, 1 report25A Croydon Street, 1 report22 Croydon Street, 1 report13 Croydon Street, 1 report12A Croydon Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Croydon Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Croydon Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Croydon 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. 25 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.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 90 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Croydon Street in 2 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 photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoLitter, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Croydon Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Croydon Street?

109 reports at 30 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (37), water & drains (28), roads & footpaths (20).

When was Croydon Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 90 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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