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Porter Street

20 reports at 9 addresses in Wigram, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 18 separate days somebody filed something about it.

20 reports9 addresses18 days reported onfrom the air, then8 documents carry the namethe 2521st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

9 Porter Street, 5 reports5 Porter Street, 3 reports23 Porter Street, 3 reports24 Porter Street, 2 reports21 Porter Street, 2 reports19 Porter Street, 2 reports8 Porter Street, 1 report3-5 Porter Street, 1 report27 Porter Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Porter Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Porter Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Porter 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. 8 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:

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

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

Roads - General, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoSewer - Leak / Blockage, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoParks, a report photoParks, a report photo more photographs
on the Wigram wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Porter Street?

In Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Porter Street?

20 reports at 9 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (7), trees & parks (7), rubbish & dumping (3).

When was Porter Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 18 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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