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Norwood Street

48 reports at 19 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 43 separate days somebody filed something about it.

48 reports19 addresses43 days reported onfrom the air, then63 documents carry the namethe 1460th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

58A Norwood Street, 6 reports79 Norwood Street, 5 reports80 Norwood Street, 4 reports78 Norwood Street, 4 reports74A Norwood Street, 4 reports83 Norwood Street, 3 reports75 Norwood Street, 3 reports71A Norwood Street, 3 reports68A Norwood Street, 3 reports77 Norwood Street, 2 reports74 Norwood Street, 2 reports67A Norwood Street, 2 reports81 Norwood Street, 1 report80-64 Norwood Street, 1 report75A Norwood Street, 1 report71 Norwood Street, 1 report70 Norwood Street, 1 report66 Norwood Street, 1 report62B Norwood Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Norwood Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Norwood Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Norwood 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. 63 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Norwood Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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 photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Norwood Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Norwood Street?

48 reports at 19 addresses, most often water & drains (19), roads & footpaths (11), rubbish & dumping (8).

When was Norwood Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 43 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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