Lawson Street

107 reports at 12 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 77 separate days somebody filed something about it.

107 reports 12 addresses77 days reported onfrom the air, then 8 documents carry the name 1 businessesthe 912th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Lawson Street from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Lawson Street from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Lawson Street from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Lawson 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

9 Lawson Street, 29 reports
15 Lawson Street, 19 reports
12 Lawson Street, 19 reports
17 Lawson Street, 14 reports
28 Lawson Street, 5 reports
29 Lawson Street, 4 reports
18 Lawson Street, 4 reports
19–29 Lawson Street, 3 reports
16 Lawson Street, 3 reports
14-12 Lawson Street, 3 reports
22 Lawson Street, 2 reports
14 Lawson Street, 2 reports

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 87 reports
Roads & footpaths, 7 reports
Water & drains, 4 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 4 reports
Vehicles & parking, 3 reports
Everything else, 1 report
Trees & parks, 1 report

Year by year

2016, 1 report
2017, 1 report
2018, 2 reports
2019, 5 reports
2020, 6 reports
2021, 2 reports
2022, 11 reports
2023, 11 reports
2024, 31 reports
2025, 25 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 8 on the shelf; the 4 earliest:

DEATHS. (Otago Witness, 07 October 1903) · Papers Past, 7 Oct 1903
…of jane esther le brun aged g3 years at rest mgregor on the 3rd october at her residence lawson street roey n margaret i relict of the late john mgrcgor photographer in her seven ty-firsfc year morti…
Byron's Byronic Adventures (NZ Truth, 06 September 1924) · Papers Past, 6 Sept 1924
…meaning byron did you see your wife again yes a few days later i saw her at mrs lairds in lawson street sydenham i called at mrs laird house in reference to her giving evidence my wife was living ther…
MY LUCKY STAR" (Evening Post, 28 August 1934) · Papers Past, 28 Aug 1934
…a 59422 richard e bain 70 bridgeman street kensington dunedin 866768 three lone stars 22 lawson street sydenliam 863142 c maginley okainwa taranaki c 20306 my last chance e cameron christehurch 82004…
TERRITORIAL SERVICE CALL-UP (Evening Post, 21 January 1942) · Papers Past, 21 Jan 1942
…cyri f 69a penrose st lower abbott harold c s alatlpo st eastbourne abbott horace h d 10 alawson st lower hut abbott norman g 15 tarlkaka st ngaio abley sidney x 6 palliser rd abrams douglas 8 21 yule…

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

The businesses on it, 1

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

The MechanicsCar repair · 17 Lawson Street

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Lawson Street in 3 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.