Bray Street
14 reports at 6 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 14 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 Bray Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Woolston.
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
- 1 Bray Street, 6 reports
- 8 Bray Street, 2 reports
- 6 Bray Street, 2 reports
- 2 Bray Street, 2 reports
- 9 Bray Street, 1 report
- 10 Bray Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 4 reports
- Trees & parks, 4 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 2 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
- Noise, 1 report
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 1 report
- 2020, 1 report
- 2021, 1 report
- 2022, 3 reports
- 2023, 1 report
- 2024, 2 reports
- 2025, 2 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- FOOTBALL. (Evening Post, 13 July 1894)
· Papers Past,
…is craig millon doyle mahoney bright bussell tyson laugh ton brighton moulton connell and bray st johns donnelly cluidge thomson 2 lyle cowan burnett mneill mills fullerton arery brown nimmo bush youn…
- CITY COUNCIL. (Star, 04 February 1908)
· Papers Past,
…permission to build an office vp s to the j boundary of a section at the corner of i mow bray street and wai tham road fihould be refused and that the trami way board should be permitted to j place a…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 19 June 1941)
· Papers Past,
…dvr mrs i o carson 24 dunedin street ponsonby m cabson norman james dvr mrs r i carson 8 bray street woolston w cassidy donald louis dvr mrs m cassidy 63 surrey crescent grey lynn w cattermole stanle…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 04 November 1941)
· Papers Past,
…carson lan r lcpl mr f carson 9 ngaio road kelburn f carson norman j dvr mrs r j carson 8 bray street woolston w casey patrick j pte mrs r casey 21 dudley terrace frankton junction m cassidy donald l…
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.
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.
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 07 July 1882) · Star,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 14 July 1883) · Star,
- Local & General. (Star, 22 December 1884) · Star,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 01 March 1890) · Star,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 12 December 1891) · Star,
- Local and General News. (Feilding Star, 18 June 1896) · Feilding Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 (Ashburton Guardian, 01 March 1900) · Ashburton Guardian,
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 01 November 1907) · Star,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Otago Daily Times 25-6-1917) · Otago Daily Times,
- HONORS AND AWARDS. (Poverty Bay Herald, 29 August 1918) · Poverty Bay Herald,
- NEW ZEALAND ARMY (Evening Post, 15 October 1918) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 07 November 1918) · Evening Post,
- NEW ZEALAND ARMY (Evening Post, 28 November 1918) · Evening Post,
- GENERAL ELECTION (Evening Post, 19 September 1938) · Evening Post,
- N.Z.E.F. ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 08 August 1942) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 03 January 1944) · Evening Post,
- N.Z. PRISONERS OF WAR NOW SAFE (Evening Post, 24 May 1945) · Evening Post,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Ellesmere Guardian, 01 June 1945) · Ellesmere Guardian,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Litter, 10 Bray St,
- Pavement - General, 1 Bray Street,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 6 Bray Street,
- Damaged Road, 1 Bray Street,
- Trees - General, 1 Bray Street,
- Trees - General, 6 Bray Street,
- Noise - General, 9 Bray Street,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 2 Bray Street,
- Abandoned Vehicle, 2 Bray Street,
- Rubbish/Recycling, 1 Bray Street,
- Water Leak, 8 Bray Street,
- Graffiti, 8 Bray Street,
- Rubbish/Recycling, 1 Bray St,
- Rubbish/Recycling, 1 Bray St,
Questions, answered briefly
In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.
14 reports at 6 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (4), trees & parks (4), roads & footpaths (2).
2018, the record covers 14 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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