Drummond Street
5 reports at 5 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 5 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Drummond Street, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Sydenham.
From the air, then
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
- 3–15 Drummond Street, 1 report
- 3A Drummond Street, 1 report
- 14 Drummond Street, 1 report
- 13 Drummond Street, 1 report
- 11 Drummond Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 2 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 2 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2018, 1 report
- 2022, 2 reports
- 2024, 1 report
On the register
- Dwelling and Setting, 12 Drummond Street
On foot, The flat that kept its fabric walks this street.
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 8 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:
- LOCAL AND GENERAL (Star, 21 January 1904)
· Papers Past,
…kolya dived from the stern of that vessel to assist pickering and charles booth of no 18 drummond street also swam out from the shore between them knight wa brought to dry land and restored abmmmwmmm…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Evening Post, 27 August 1937)
· Papers Past,
…atoun 1823 evg post t arge single sunny room hot water tray reasonable 37 king street off drummond street superior furnisheddouble bed-sitting-room fireplace business couple 25s week including light a…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Evening Post, 22 January 1941)
· Papers Past,
…rn the slipper and sandal manufacturing trade apply the manager wellington slipper co ltd drummond street canterbury education board opecial positions at the occupation centre 104 merivale lane christ…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 09 July 1941)
· Papers Past,
…e mrs w m fletcher 361 george street diraedin w foord leonard victor pte mrs m g foord 13 drummond street sydenham christchurch w forbes hector lindsay pte mrs m forbes wharehuia stratford m ford alan…
- MEN WHO ARE NOW 21 (Evening Post, 03 December 1941)
· Papers Past,
…s st spelman j c r 281 the terrace spence a n co capt spence karehana bay bpierling n f 1 drummond st spiller r l co lever bros petone spragg x v h 58 calabar rd stackiiouse 1 88 nairn st stanhope n 0…
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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Drummond Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.
5 reports at 5 addresses, most often water & drains (2), roads & footpaths (2), graffiti & vandalism (1).
2018, the record covers 5 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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