chch.live a street, in depth

Karamu Street

146 reports at 18 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 119 separate days somebody filed something about it.

146 reports18 addresses119 days reported onfrom the air, then14 documents carry the namethe 589th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2 Karamu Street, 26 reports24 Karamu Street, 18 reports22A Karamu Street, 17 reports8A Karamu Street, 16 reports3 Karamu Street, 14 reports5 Karamu Street, 11 reports20 Karamu Street, 10 reports10 Karamu Street, 6 reports8 Karamu Street, 5 reports20A Karamu Street, 5 reports22 Karamu Street, 4 reports18A Karamu Street, 4 reports26 Karamu Street, 3 reports14 Karamu Street, 3 reports6 Karamu Street, 1 report3A Karamu Street, 1 report21 Karamu Street, 1 report18 Karamu Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Karamu Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Karamu Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Karamu 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. 14 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.

Milnebank Reserve footbridge · 25 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

Park - General Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Upper Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Karamu Street?

In Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Karamu Street?

146 reports at 18 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (106), trees & parks (18), roads & footpaths (12).

When was Karamu Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 119 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

Every street the archive knows → · Upper Riccarton → · This street as a feed →