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Charles Street

373 reports at 82 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 272 separate days somebody filed something about it.

373 reports82 addresses272 days reported onfrom the air, then251 documents carry the namethe 182nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

80 Charles Street, 19 reports118 Charles Street, 19 reports114 Charles Street, 18 reports44 Charles Street, 17 reports20 Charles Street, 16 reports2 Charles Street, 16 reports74 Charles Street, 13 reports97 Charles Street, 10 reports53 Charles Street, 10 reports49 Charles Street, 10 reports43A Charles Street, 10 reports43 Charles Street, 10 reports30 Charles Street, 9 reports18 Charles Street, 9 reports58A Charles Street, 8 reports25 Charles Street, 8 reports110F Charles Street, 8 reports81 Charles Street, 7 reports65 Charles Street, 7 reports98 Charles Street, 6 reports94 Charles Street, 6 reports58 Charles Street, 6 reports41 Charles Street, 6 reports32 Charles Street, 5 reports11 Charles Street, 5 reports90 Charles Street, 4 reports60 Charles Street, 4 reports55 Charles Street, 4 reports48 Charles Street, 4 reports47 Charles Street, 4 reports110 Charles Street, 4 reports105 Charles Street, 4 reports99 Charles Street, 3 reports70 Charles Street, 3 reports59 Charles Street, 3 reports50 Charles Street, 3 reports39 Charles Street, 3 reports29 Charles Street, 3 reports22 Charles Street, 3 reports108 Charles Street, 3 reports102 Charles Street, 3 reports101 Charles Street, 3 reports95 Charles Street, 2 reports91 Charles Street, 2 reports9 Charles Street, 2 reports8A Charles Street, 2 reports86a Charles Street, 2 reports86A Charles Street, 2 reports86 Charles Street, 2 reports78 Charles Street, 2 reports52 Charles Street, 2 reports45 Charles Street, 2 reports44-48 Charles Street, 2 reports44-46 Charles Street, 2 reports41-73 Charles Street, 2 reports16 Charles Street, 2 reports14 Charles Street, 2 reports107 Charles Street, 2 reports100A Charles Street, 2 reports97-99 Charles Street, 1 report85 Charles Street, 1 report79 Charles Street, 1 report61 Charles Street, 1 report57a Charles Street, 1 report57 Charles Street, 1 report46 Charles Street, 1 report418 Charles Street, 1 report4 Charles Street, 1 report36 Charles Street, 1 report35 Charles Street, 1 report33 Charles Street, 1 report27 Charles Street, 1 report26 Charles Street, 1 report25-29 Charles Street, 1 report24 Charles Street, 1 report23 Charles Street, 1 report21-39 Charles Street, 1 report12 Charles Street, 1 report108F Charles Street, 1 report106 Charles Street, 1 report10-14 Charles Street, 1 report10 Charles Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Charles Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Charles Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Charles 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 22 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. 251 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Charles Street in 5 crashes 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photo more photographs
on the Waltham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Charles Street?

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Charles Street?

373 reports at 82 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (147), graffiti & vandalism (118), roads & footpaths (33).

When was Charles Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 272 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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