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Elgin Street

117 reports at 14 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 61 separate days somebody filed something about it.

117 reports14 addresses61 days reported onfrom the air, then30 documents carry the name7 businessesthe 1100th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2 Elgin Street, 20 reports6 Elgin Street, 18 reports33 Elgin Street, 18 reports29 Elgin Street, 12 reports5 Elgin Street, 11 reports13 Elgin Street, 11 reports27a Elgin Street, 7 reports19 Elgin Street, 7 reports23 Elgin Street, 4 reports17 Elgin Street, 3 reports2–6 Elgin Street, 2 reports2-6 Elgin Street, 2 reports9 Elgin Street, 1 report11 Elgin Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Elgin Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Elgin Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Elgin 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. 30 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 7

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Elgin Street in 16 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoFlooding, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoWater General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Elgin Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Elgin Street?

117 reports at 14 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (49), roads & footpaths (43), water & drains (8).

When was Elgin Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 61 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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