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Hume Street

175 reports at 46 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 134 separate days somebody filed something about it.

175 reports46 addresses134 days reported onfrom the air, then19 documents carry the namethe 522nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

34 Hume Street, 26 reports82 Hume Street, 13 reports30 Hume Street, 12 reports80 Hume Street, 10 reports70 Hume Street, 9 reports32 Hume Street, 9 reports51 Hume Street, 7 reports39 Hume Street, 7 reports72 Hume Street, 6 reports17D Hume Street, 6 reports9 Hume Street, 5 reports7 Hume Street, 5 reports20 Hume Street, 5 reports68 Hume Street, 4 reports17F Hume Street, 4 reports11A Hume Street, 4 reports53 Hume Street, 3 reports36 Hume Street, 3 reports28 Hume Street, 3 reports17 Hume Street, 3 reports62 Hume Street, 2 reports19 Hume Street, 2 reports17A Hume Street, 2 reports13 Hume Street, 2 reports11 Hume Street, 2 reports78 Hume Street, 1 report75-79 Hume Street, 1 report75 Hume Street, 1 report66 Hume Street, 1 report61 Hume Street, 1 report6 Hume Street, 1 report59 Hume Street, 1 report56 Hume Street, 1 report53A Hume Street, 1 report49 Hume Street, 1 report48 Hume Street, 1 report45 Hume Street, 1 report26 Hume Street, 1 report25 Hume Street, 1 report23 Hume Street, 1 report22 Hume Street, 1 report21 Hume Street, 1 report16 Hume Street, 1 report11B Hume Street, 1 report10 Hume Street, 1 report1/56 Hume Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Hume Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hume Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hume 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. 19 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.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 38 m away Jacksons Creek stream · 65 m away Cameron Reserve road bridge · 107 m away Waltham Park ramp · 127 m away Waltham Park set of steps · 130 m away Waltham Park ramp · 137 m away Waltham Park ramp · 138 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hume Street in 4 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Hume Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Hume Street?

175 reports at 46 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (99), roads & footpaths (25), graffiti & vandalism (21).

When was Hume Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 134 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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