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Mowbray Street

183 reports at 42 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 131 separate days somebody filed something about it.

183 reports42 addresses131 days reported onfrom the air, then35 documents carry the namethe 534th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

54 Mowbray Street, 34 reports52 Mowbray Street, 16 reports69 Mowbray Street, 10 reports29 Mowbray Street, 10 reports112 Mowbray Street, 10 reports103 Mowbray Street, 10 reports110 Mowbray Street, 8 reports89 Mowbray Street, 7 reports111 Mowbray Street, 7 reports94 Mowbray Street, 6 reports12 Mowbray Street, 6 reports92 Mowbray Street, 5 reports50 Mowbray Street, 5 reports90 Mowbray Street, 4 reports46 Mowbray Street, 4 reports26 Mowbray Street, 4 reports22 Mowbray Street, 4 reports106 Mowbray Street, 4 reports88 Mowbray Street, 3 reports67 Mowbray Street, 2 reports61–87 Mowbray Street, 2 reports102 Mowbray Street, 2 reports97 Mowbray Street, 1 report96 Mowbray Street, 1 report82 Mowbray Street, 1 report80 Mowbray Street, 1 report72 Mowbray Street, 1 report68 Mowbray Street, 1 report67a Mowbray Street, 1 report55 Mowbray Street, 1 report40 Mowbray Street, 1 report38 Mowbray Street, 1 report36–50 Mowbray Street, 1 report34 Mowbray Street, 1 report30E Mowbray Street, 1 report2–8 Mowbray Street, 1 report28-34 Mowbray Street, 1 report14 Mowbray Street, 1 report13 Mowbray Street, 1 report107 Mowbray Street, 1 report105 Mowbray Street, 1 report100 Mowbray Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Mowbray Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mowbray Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Mowbray 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. 35 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 Mowbray Street in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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 photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Waltham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Mowbray Street?

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Mowbray Street?

183 reports at 42 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (87), rubbish & dumping (37), roads & footpaths (28).

When was Mowbray Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 131 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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