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Barbour Street

202 reports at 70 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 171 separate days somebody filed something about it.

202 reports70 addresses171 days reported onfrom the air, then254 documents carry the namethe 368th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

92 Barbour Street, 10 reports96 Barbour Street, 8 reports80 Barbour Street, 8 reports60 Barbour Street, 8 reports112 Barbour Street, 8 reports111 Barbour Street, 8 reports87 Barbour Street, 7 reports52 Barbour Street, 7 reports85 Barbour Street, 6 reports76 Barbour Street, 6 reports45 Barbour Street, 6 reports1 Barbour Street, 6 reports57 Barbour Street, 5 reports56 Barbour Street, 5 reports48 Barbour Street, 5 reports110 Barbour Street, 5 reports65 Barbour Street, 4 reports42 Barbour Street, 4 reports29 Barbour Street, 4 reports105 Barbour Street, 4 reports88 Barbour Street, 3 reports7 Barbour Street, 3 reports61A Barbour Street, 3 reports46 Barbour Street, 3 reports33F Barbour Street, 3 reports33 Barbour Street, 3 reports23 Barbour Street, 3 reports11 Barbour Street, 3 reports106 Barbour Street, 3 reports101A Barbour Street, 3 reports89 Barbour Street, 2 reports68 Barbour Street, 2 reports61 Barbour Street, 2 reports50 Barbour Street, 2 reports43 Barbour Street, 2 reports2A Barbour Street, 2 reports2 Barbour Street, 2 reports15 Barbour Street, 2 reports91 Barbour Street, 1 report83 Barbour Street, 1 report78 Barbour Street, 1 report77 Barbour Street, 1 report73 Barbour Street, 1 report70 Barbour Street, 1 report69 Barbour Street, 1 report64 Barbour Street, 1 report62 Barbour Street, 1 report6/112 Barbour Street, 1 report58 Barbour Street, 1 report50B Barbour Street, 1 report48A Barbour Street, 1 report41 Barbour Street, 1 report39 Barbour Street, 1 report38 Barbour Street, 1 report34-38 Barbour Street, 1 report34 Barbour Street, 1 report33-53 Barbour Street, 1 report30 Barbour Street, 1 report3 Barbour Street, 1 report28 Barbour Street, 1 report25 Barbour Street, 1 report21 Barbour Street, 1 report20 Barbour Street, 1 report18 Barbour Street, 1 report17 Barbour Street, 1 report16 Barbour Street, 1 report109 Barbour Street, 1 report102 Barbour Street, 1 report101E Barbour Street, 1 report101 Barbour Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

and the other 10 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 254 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.

Lancaster Park ramp · 142 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Barbour Street in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Blockage, 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 photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Waltham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Barbour Street?

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Barbour Street?

202 reports at 70 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (91), graffiti & vandalism (47), vehicles & parking (23).

When was Barbour Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 171 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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