Kent Street
8 reports at 7 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 8 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 Kent Street, not the street’s surveyed line. 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
- 59E Kent Street, 2 reports
- 95B Kent Street, 1 report
- 49-59 Kent Street, 1 report
- 40 Kent Street, 1 report
- 22 Kent Street, 1 report
- 21 Kent Street, 1 report
- 1A Kent Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 4 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 2 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Everything else, 1 report
Year by year
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 1 report
- 2020, 1 report
- 2024, 3 reports
- 2025, 1 report
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 35 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:
- Untitled (New Zealand Tablet, 05 September 1884)
· Papers Past,
…prominent ones smallpox is increasing in sydney and suburbs fresh cases have occurred in kent street in tbe city and at the glebe the patients have been placed under quaiantine general lord vvolseley…
- LOCAL & GENERAL. (Otago Witness, 29 October 1886)
· Papers Past,
…whom he did not recognise met him and invited him to drink with them at a publichouse in kent street he accepted the invitation and after drinking became unconscious he remembered nothing more until…
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 28 October 1887)
· Papers Past,
…charge as he had found since tho arrest that the man had partly agreed to rent the house kent stated that the constable instead of knocking at the door had entered through the window ho wanted to kno…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.
8 reports at 7 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (4), graffiti & vandalism (2), water & drains (1).
2018, the record covers 8 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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