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Orbell Street

191 reports at 42 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 123 separate days somebody filed something about it.

191 reports42 addresses123 days reported onfrom the air, then25 documents carry the name7 businessesthe 564th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

45 Orbell Street, 29 reports62 Orbell Street, 25 reports8 Orbell Street, 19 reports98 Orbell Street, 9 reports48 Orbell Street, 7 reports32 Orbell Street, 7 reports110 Orbell Street, 7 reports72 Orbell Street, 6 reports64 Orbell Street, 6 reports52 Orbell Street, 6 reports36 Orbell Street, 6 reports102 Orbell Street, 6 reports68 Orbell Street, 5 reports95 Orbell Street, 4 reports96 Orbell Street, 3 reports81 Orbell Street, 3 reports79E Orbell Street, 3 reports67 Orbell Street, 3 reports57 Orbell Street, 3 reports108 Orbell Street, 3 reports99 Orbell Street, 2 reports92 Orbell Street, 2 reports91 Orbell Street, 2 reports8A Orbell Street, 2 reports78 Orbell Street, 2 reports76 Orbell Street, 2 reports75A Orbell Street, 2 reports131 Orbell Street, 2 reports106 Orbell Street, 2 reports82-88 Orbell Street, 1 report79 Orbell Street, 1 report74 Orbell Street, 1 report67-69 Orbell Street, 1 report5/72 Orbell Street, 1 report42 Orbell Street, 1 report34 Orbell Street, 1 report28 Orbell Street, 1 report131-133 Orbell Street, 1 report13 Orbell Street, 1 report120 Orbell Street, 1 report111 Orbell Street, 1 report109 Orbell Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Orbell Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Orbell Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Orbell Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Orbell 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. 25 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 7

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 132 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Orbell Street in 13 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Orbell Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Orbell Street?

191 reports at 42 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (113), rubbish & dumping (40), roads & footpaths (13).

When was Orbell Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 123 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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