Ryan Street
9 reports at 6 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 9 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Ryan Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Waltham.
From the air, then
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
- 70A Ryan Street, 3 reports
- 10 Ryan Street, 2 reports
- 60 Ryan Street, 1 report
- 44A Ryan Street, 1 report
- 14 Ryan Street, 1 report
- 10-12 Ryan Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 2 reports
- Trees & parks, 2 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
- Roads & footpaths, 1 report
- Everything else, 1 report
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2016, 1 report
- 2021, 1 report
- 2022, 1 report
- 2023, 2 reports
- 2024, 2 reports
- 2025, 1 report
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 19 on the shelf; the 4 earliest:
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 25 March 1869)
· Papers Past,
…the 17th inst mr slater appearing in support of the case complain ant stated that stephen ryan struck him whilst in the bar without any provocation and afterwards ill-used him until he became insensib…
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 08 June 1907)
· Papers Past,
…mbo street city 232 wanted known ladies nurse dis engaged or accommodation for same apply ryan store opposite sydenham pari 23l wanted position in office as junior shorthand typist apply typist times…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 13 November 1907)
· Papers Past,
…opposite darwin street 751 ladies nuraij disengaged from date hlhly recommended apply mrs ryan store opposite sydenham park 743 lost in cashel street west puree con taining gold finder rewarded apply…
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 07 March 1908)
· Papers Past,
…anted box 120 gpo 8101 ocouchment wanted comfortable good reference terms moderate ap ply ryan store opposite spdenham park c 8103 an elderly bachelor wishes to make tho acquaintance of a similar-aged…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Ryan Street in 14 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.
9 reports at 6 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (2), trees & parks (2), water & drains (1).
2016, the record covers 9 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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