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Wembley Street

35 reports at 18 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 30 separate days somebody filed something about it.

35 reports18 addresses30 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 1874th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

25 Wembley Street, 6 reports34 Wembley Street, 4 reports35A Wembley Street, 3 reports23 Wembley Street, 3 reports21 Wembley Street, 3 reports38A Wembley Street, 2 reports26 Wembley Street, 2 reports15 Wembley Street, 2 reports36 Wembley Street, 1 report35 Wembley Street, 1 report32 Wembley Street, 1 report29 Wembley Street, 1 report27 Wembley Street, 1 report24 Wembley Street, 1 report22 Wembley Street, 1 report21A Wembley Street, 1 report20 Wembley Street, 1 report17 Wembley Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Wembley Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wembley Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wembley 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.

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.

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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wembley Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wembley Street?

35 reports at 18 addresses, most often water & drains (10), trees & parks (10), rubbish & dumping (5).

When was Wembley Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 30 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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