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Roxburgh Street

29 reports at 15 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 19 separate days somebody filed something about it.

29 reports15 addresses19 days reported onfrom the air, then56 documents carry the namethe 2435th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

18 Roxburgh Street, 4 reports8 Roxburgh Street, 3 reports7 Roxburgh Street, 3 reports16 Roxburgh Street, 3 reports1 Roxburgh Street, 3 reports9 Roxburgh Street, 2 reports14 Roxburgh Street, 2 reports10 Roxburgh Street, 2 reports8A Roxburgh Street, 1 report7B Roxburgh Street, 1 report5 Roxburgh Street, 1 report22 Roxburgh Street, 1 report17C Roxburgh Street, 1 report12 Roxburgh Street, 1 report11 Roxburgh Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Roxburgh Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Roxburgh Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Roxburgh 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. 56 on the shelf; the 7 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 open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 97 m away

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

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoPothole, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoWater Supply, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Roxburgh Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Roxburgh Street?

29 reports at 15 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (14), water & drains (6), vehicles & parking (4).

When was Roxburgh Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 19 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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