Durham Street South

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Durham Street South, 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

• 100 Durham Street South, 35 reports
• 50 Durham Street South, 26 reports
• 175 Durham Street South, 23 reports
• 14 Durham Street South, 19 reports
• 52 Durham Street South, 18 reports
• 85 Durham Street South, 17 reports
• 68 Durham Street South, 13 reports
• 30 Durham Street South, 12 reports
• 39 Durham Street South, 11 reports
• 34 Durham Street South, 11 reports
• 93 Durham Street South, 10 reports
• 82 Durham Street South, 10 reports
• 101 Durham Street South, 10 reports
• 111 Durham Street South, 9 reports
• 10 Durham Street South, 9 reports
• 72 Durham Street South, 8 reports
• 54 Durham Street South, 8 reports
• 8041/50 Durham Street South, 7 reports
• 78 Durham Street South, 7 reports
• 42 Durham Street South, 7 reports
• 22 Durham Street South, 7 reports
• 21 Durham Street South, 7 reports
• 8 Durham Street South, 6 reports
• 58 Durham Street South, 6 reports
• 5 Durham Street South, 6 reports
• 40 Durham Street South, 6 reports
• 53 Durham Street South, 5 reports
• 89 Durham Street South, 4 reports
• 56 Durham Street South, 4 reports
• 51 Durham Street South, 4 reports
• 138 Durham Street South, 4 reports
• 117 Durham Street South, 4 reports
• 107F Durham Street South, 4 reports
• 1 Durham Street South, 4 reports
• 81 Durham Street South, 3 reports
• 76 Durham Street South, 3 reports
• 66 Durham Street South, 3 reports
• 37 Durham Street South, 3 reports
• 18-39 Durham Street South, 3 reports
• 12 Durham Street South, 3 reports
• 85-87 Durham Street South, 2 reports
• 71 Durham Street South, 2 reports
• 35 Durham Street South, 2 reports
• 161-163 Durham Street South, 2 reports
• 119 Durham Street South, 2 reports
• 118 Durham Street South, 2 reports
• 112-118 Durham Street South, 2 reports
• 110 Durham Street South, 2 reports
• 107 Durham Street South, 2 reports
• 80 Durham Street South, 1 report
• 77 Durham Street South, 1 report
• 76A Durham Street South, 1 report
• 75 Durham Street South, 1 report
• 73A Durham Street South, 1 report
• 69 Durham Street South, 1 report
• 67 Durham Street South, 1 report
• 64 Durham Street South, 1 report
• 55 Durham Street South, 1 report
• 53B Durham Street South, 1 report
• 49 Durham Street South, 1 report

What got reported

• Graffiti & vandalism, 254 reports
• Roads & footpaths, 64 reports
• Water & drains, 41 reports
• Trees & parks, 16 reports
• Vehicles & parking, 11 reports
• Rubbish & dumping, 8 reports
• Everything else, 3 reports

Year by year

• 2015, 2 reports
• 2016, 5 reports
• 2017, 6 reports
• 2018, 10 reports
• 2019, 5 reports
• 2020, 8 reports
• 2021, 13 reports
• 2022, 31 reports
• 2023, 90 reports
• 2024, 140 reports
• 2025, 62 reports

On the register

• Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place, 71 Durham Street South

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. 141 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

• Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 21 April 1860) · Papers Past, 21 Apr 1860
  …william christchurch leasehold no 279 kilmore street christchurch house and carter james durham street south christ ith of an acre of land nos 2091 1807 on church household house on section 864 durha…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 25 April 1860) · Papers Past, 25 Apr 1860
  …william christchurch leasehold no 279 kilmore street christchurch house a i carter james durham street south christ th of an acre of land nos 2091 180 on church household house on section 864 durham…
• JURY LIST FOR 1860. (Lyttelton Times, 19 May 1860) · Papers Past, 19 May 1860
  …ohn college land lyttelton laborer carter henry thomas john rangiora drayman carter james durham street south christchurch laborer carter john coririga station stockowner cator william rpbert riccaftp…
• ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.-CLAIMS TO VOTE-1862. (Lyttelton Times, 09 April 1862) · Papers Past, 9 Apr 1862
  …osh pago aero kilmore strcot kilmoro street part section 271 llios j bum 140 town reserve durham street south liichard taylor o sections 671 and 672 latimorsquto stti colombo street north h c p soulsb…
• ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.—CLAIMS TO VOTE—IB 62. (Lyttelton Times, 12 April 1862) · Papers Past, 12 Apr 1862
  …ehold household leasehold kilmoro street kilmoro streot part section 271 140 town rosorve durham street south sections 671 and 672 latimer squaro colombo street north houso and armagh stroot town roso…
• MUNICIPAL COUNCILS. (Star, 02 July 1878) · Papers Past, 2 Jul 1878
  …cobsen st asaph street j mr buchanan st asapu street mr lambert kilmore street mr snoider durham street south mr snoicler durham street south mr treadwell south town belt mr tread well haity street so…

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

The businesses on it, 6

Premises whose address in the directory is Durham Street South, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

• Chambers Art Gallery & Studio SpacesGalleries · 80 Durham Street South, Sydenham
• Coffee Culture Roastery on DurhamCafés · Corner Elgin St & Durham Street South, Sydenham
• Computer Concepts LimitedIT & software · 21 Durham Street South
• Dive HQ ChristchurchOutdoor gear · 103 Durham Street South
• Sydenham UnderpassVenues & events · 113 Durham Street South Sydenham
• Work and Income, Durham StreetGovernment · 39 Durham Street South

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Durham Street South in 33 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Durham Street South & Moorhouse Avenue, 41 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

• Water Leak, 14 Durham Street South, 5 Oct 2026
• Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 175 Durham Street South, 4 Oct 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 138 Durham Street South, 4 Oct 2026
• Water Leak, 69 Durham Street South, 1 Oct 2026
• Hazard, vehicle, 89 Durham Street South, 23 Sept 2026
• Water General, 10 Durham Street South, 11 Sept 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 93 Durham Street South, 2 Sept 2026
• Pavement - Damaged, 82 Durham Street South, 2 Sept 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 101 Durham Street South, 2 Sept 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 107 Durham Street South, 2 Sept 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 100 Durham Street South, 2 Sept 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 100 Durham Street South, 11 Aug 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 21 Durham Street South, 30 Jul 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 100 Durham Street South, 11 Jul 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 100 Durham Street South, 26 Jun 2026