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Brougham Street

44 reports at 15 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 35 separate days somebody filed something about it.

44 reports15 addresses35 days reported onfrom the air, then416 documents carry the name3 businessesthe 1697th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

501 Brougham Street, 8 reports443 Brougham Street, 7 reports445 Brougham Street, 5 reports14F Brougham Street, 5 reports489 Brougham Street, 3 reports473 Brougham Street, 3 reports499-501 Brougham Street, 2 reports489-497 Brougham Street, 2 reports471 Brougham Street, 2 reports408R Brougham Street, 2 reports499 Brougham Street, 1 report493 Brougham Street, 1 report479 Brougham Street, 1 report473F Brougham Street, 1 report410R Brougham Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Brougham Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Brougham Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Brougham 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. 416 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 3

Premises whose address in the directory is Brougham Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Brougham Street in 20 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Brougham Street & Colombo Street, 53 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 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 photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoFlooding, a report photo more photographs
on the Waltham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Brougham Street?

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Brougham Street?

44 reports at 15 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (23), roads & footpaths (9), rubbish & dumping (6).

When was Brougham Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 35 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Brougham Street?

Brougham Street and Colombo Street, 53 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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