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Forbes Street

72 reports at 15 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 70 separate days somebody filed something about it.

72 reports15 addresses70 days reported onfrom the air, then52 documents carry the namethe 972nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

29 Forbes Street, 16 reports19 Forbes Street, 11 reports13 Forbes Street, 11 reports9 Forbes Street, 7 reports27 Forbes Street, 7 reports30 Forbes Street, 6 reports9B Forbes Street, 3 reports4 Forbes Street, 3 reports21 Forbes Street, 2 reports9–11 Forbes Street, 1 report9A Forbes Street, 1 report18A Forbes Street, 1 report17A Forbes Street, 1 report17 Forbes Street, 1 report11 Forbes Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Forbes Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Forbes Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Forbes 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. 52 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 6 m away Bradford Park footbridge · 24 m away

As it was reported

Trees - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoWater Pollution - Sediment, a report photoWater General, a report photoDamaged Street Light, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Forbes Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Forbes Street?

72 reports at 15 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (26), trees & parks (24), roads & footpaths (9).

When was Forbes Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 70 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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