Orr Street
9 reports at 3 addresses in Wigram, the first in 2022, 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 Orr Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Wigram.
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
- 29 Orr Street, 6 reports
- 23–29 Orr Street, 2 reports
- 12 Orr Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Trees & parks, 7 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 1 report
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2022, 1 report
- 2023, 4 reports
- 2025, 2 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 6 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 23 July 1879)
· Papers Past,
…ft co lyttelton harvey hawkins ho oxford dilnot sladden ttaneiora 0 j 0 g chapman bakaia orr st co bouthbridge w j g bluett a co timaru john jackson waltbam daniel gow waimto joiepb oottrell agents w…
- WOMEN IN PRINT. (Evening Post, 24 December 1929)
· Papers Past,
…ibuted towards the programme were misses eoberts and harris mrs mainwaring messrs bobbins orr stark and humphries the dancers were misses daniels 2 oconnor 2 eaine larsen penman oates 1 fisher johnson…
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.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 12 Orr St,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 23–29 Orr St,
- Playground Equipment, 29 Orr Street,
- Playground Equipment, 23–29 Orr St,
- Graffiti, 29 Orr Street,
- Playground Equipment, 29 Orr Street,
- Playground Equipment, 29 Orr Street,
- Playground Equipment, 29 Orr Street,
- Playground Equipment, 29 Orr Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand.
9 reports at 3 addresses, most often trees & parks (7), rubbish & dumping (1), graffiti & vandalism (1).
2022, the record covers 9 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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