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Hornbrook Street

40 reports at 14 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 32 separate days somebody filed something about it.

40 reports14 addresses32 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the namethe 1785th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

9 Hornbrook Street, 7 reports7 Hornbrook Street, 6 reports26 Hornbrook Street, 5 reports11 Hornbrook Street, 4 reports13 Hornbrook Street, 3 reports8A Hornbrook Street, 2 reports8 Hornbrook Street, 2 reports23A Hornbrook Street, 2 reports17 Hornbrook Street, 2 reports15 Hornbrook Street, 2 reports13B Hornbrook Street, 2 reports4 Hornbrook Street, 1 report21 Hornbrook Street, 1 report14 Hornbrook Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Hornbrook Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hornbrook Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hornbrook 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 crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hornbrook Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Hornbrook Street?

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Hornbrook Street?

40 reports at 14 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (17), graffiti & vandalism (10), water & drains (8).

When was Hornbrook Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 32 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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