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Osborne Street

308 reports at 65 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 240 separate days somebody filed something about it.

308 reports65 addresses240 days reported onfrom the air, then24 documents carry the namethe 235th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

126 Osborne Street, 27 reports124 Osborne Street, 24 reports112 Osborne Street, 22 reports76 Osborne Street, 17 reports55 Osborne Street, 15 reports95 Osborne Street, 14 reports73 Osborne Street, 14 reports125 Osborne Street, 12 reports121 Osborne Street, 9 reports117 Osborne Street, 8 reports113X Osborne Street, 8 reports84 Osborne Street, 7 reports56 Osborne Street, 7 reports98 Osborne Street, 6 reports91 Osborne Street, 6 reports122 Osborne Street, 6 reports96 Osborne Street, 5 reports120 Osborne Street, 5 reports113 Osborne Street, 5 reports111 Osborne Street, 5 reports58 Osborne Street, 4 reports51 Osborne Street, 4 reports30 Osborne Street, 4 reports16 Osborne Street, 4 reports99 Osborne Street, 3 reports94 Osborne Street, 3 reports92 Osborne Street, 3 reports80 Osborne Street, 3 reports64 Osborne Street, 3 reports63 Osborne Street, 3 reports61 Osborne Street, 3 reports59 Osborne Street, 3 reports58A Osborne Street, 3 reports32 Osborne Street, 3 reports120A Osborne Street, 3 reports79 Osborne Street, 2 reports70 Osborne Street, 2 reports65 Osborne Street, 2 reports27 Osborne Street, 2 reports114 Osborne Street, 2 reports103A Osborne Street, 2 reports101 Osborne Street, 2 reports88 Osborne Street, 1 report85 Osborne Street, 1 report83 Osborne Street, 1 report74 Osborne Street, 1 report71 Osborne Street, 1 report65A Osborne Street, 1 report63A Osborne Street, 1 report53 Osborne Street, 1 report48 Osborne Street, 1 report40 Osborne Street, 1 report39 Osborne Street, 1 report35 Osborne Street, 1 report26 Osborne Street, 1 report25 Osborne Street, 1 report121A Osborne Street, 1 report121-125 Osborne Street, 1 report119 Osborne Street, 1 report113-125 Osborne Street, 1 report109 Osborne Street, 1 report106 Osborne Street, 1 report105 Osborne Street, 1 report104 Osborne Street, 1 report1/58 Osborne Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Osborne Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Osborne Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Osborne 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 5 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. 24 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 Osborne Street in 11 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

Water Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Waltham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Osborne Street?

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Osborne Street?

308 reports at 65 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (151), graffiti & vandalism (95), water & drains (25).

When was Osborne Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 240 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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