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Walpole Street

76 reports at 31 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 63 separate days somebody filed something about it.

76 reports31 addresses63 days reported onfrom the air, then22 documents carry the namethe 1071st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

36 Walpole Street, 14 reports9 Walpole Street, 8 reports35 Walpole Street, 8 reports15 Walpole Street, 7 reports36D Walpole Street, 3 reports31A Walpole Street, 3 reports12 Walpole Street, 3 reports39 Walpole Street, 2 reports27 Walpole Street, 2 reports2 Walpole Street, 2 reports18B Walpole Street, 2 reports12D Walpole Street, 2 reports11 Walpole Street, 2 reports8 Walpole Street, 1 report59 Walpole Street, 1 report45 Walpole Street, 1 report43 Walpole Street, 1 report41 Walpole Street, 1 report38 Walpole Street, 1 report36A Walpole Street, 1 report34 Walpole Street, 1 report29-45 Walpole Street, 1 report29 Walpole Street, 1 report26 Walpole Street, 1 report25 Walpole Street, 1 report24 Walpole Street, 1 report20 Walpole Street, 1 report19B Walpole Street, 1 report19 Walpole Street, 1 report13 Walpole Street, 1 report1/35 Walpole Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoWater General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Light Outage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photo more photographs
on the Waltham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Walpole Street?

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Walpole Street?

76 reports at 31 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (35), water & drains (11), trees & parks (10).

When was Walpole Street first reported on?

2020, the record covers 63 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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