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Bass Street

72 reports at 25 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 66 separate days somebody filed something about it.

72 reports25 addresses66 days reported onfrom the air, then15 documents carry the namethe 1021st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

18 Bass Street, 22 reports32 Bass Street, 9 reports17 Bass Street, 7 reports14 Bass Street, 5 reports43 Bass Street, 4 reports17-27 Bass Street, 3 reports36 Bass Street, 2 reports16 Bass Street, 2 reports13 Bass Street, 2 reports7 Bass Street, 1 report5-27 Bass Street, 1 report5 Bass Street, 1 report49 Bass Street, 1 report41 Bass Street, 1 report4 Bass Street, 1 report38 Bass Street, 1 report37 Bass Street, 1 report35 Bass Street, 1 report31 Bass Street, 1 report29-35 Bass Street, 1 report29 Bass Street, 1 report28A Bass Street, 1 report26 Bass Street, 1 report21 Bass Street, 1 report13-17 Bass Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Bass Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bass Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bass 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. 15 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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.

Edmonds Park boardwalk · 106 m away Edmonds Park boardwalk · 115 m away Edmonds Park boardwalk · 124 m away Edmonds Park boardwalk · 130 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Bass Street in 2 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

Rubbish and Bins - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoStreet Light Outage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photo more photographs
on the Woolston wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Bass Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Bass Street?

72 reports at 25 addresses, most often water & drains (18), graffiti & vandalism (16), rubbish & dumping (14).

When was Bass Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 66 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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