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Catherine Street

95 reports at 15 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 89 separate days somebody filed something about it.

95 reports15 addresses89 days reported onfrom the air, then39 documents carry the namethe 786th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

18 Catherine Street, 28 reports19A Catherine Street, 14 reports12 Catherine Street, 9 reports26 Catherine Street, 8 reports19 Catherine Street, 8 reports9 Catherine Street, 6 reports6 Catherine Street, 6 reports14 Catherine Street, 6 reports8 Catherine Street, 2 reports4 Catherine Street, 2 reports11 Catherine Street, 2 reports17 Catherine Street, 1 report15-19 Catherine Street, 1 report15 Catherine Street, 1 report10 Catherine Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Catherine Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Catherine Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Catherine 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. 39 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 4 m away Woolston Cut canal · 88 m away unnamed jetty · 8 m away Radley Park footbridge · 85 m away Staunton Esplanade Reserve set of steps · 131 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Catherine Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Woolston wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Catherine Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Catherine Street?

95 reports at 15 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (44), graffiti & vandalism (21), trees & parks (11).

When was Catherine Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 89 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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