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Waverley Street

28 reports at 11 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2022, the latest 2026. 25 separate days somebody filed something about it.

28 reports11 addresses25 days reported onfrom the air, then25 documents carry the namethe 2085th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

4 Waverley Street, 6 reports7 Waverley Street, 4 reports11 Waverley Street, 4 reports13/4 Waverley Street, 3 reports6 Waverley Street, 2 reports5/4 Waverley Street, 2 reports4/4 Waverley Street, 2 reports2/4 Waverley Street, 2 reports14/4 Waverley Street, 1 report12/4 Waverley Street, 1 report10/4 Waverley Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Waverley Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Waverley Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Waverley 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 named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Sydenham Community Centre set of steps · 147 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Waverley Street in 1 crash 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.

As it was reported

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 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 photoRoad Signage, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Waverley Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Waverley Street?

28 reports at 11 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (21), roads & footpaths (5), water & drains (1).

When was Waverley Street first reported on?

2022, the record covers 25 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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