Edmonds Street
83 reports at 27 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 72 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 Edmonds 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
- 36A Edmonds Street, 17 reports
- 37 Edmonds Street, 10 reports
- 28A Edmonds Street, 8 reports
- 23 Edmonds Street, 7 reports
- 22 Edmonds Street, 7 reports
- 31 Edmonds Street, 3 reports
- 30 Edmonds Street, 3 reports
- 16 Edmonds Street, 3 reports
- 38 Edmonds Street, 2 reports
- 36 Edmonds Street, 2 reports
- 26 Edmonds Street, 2 reports
- 15A Edmonds Street, 2 reports
- 14A Edmonds Street, 2 reports
- 14 Edmonds Street, 2 reports
- 9 Edmonds Street, 1 report
- 8 Edmonds Street, 1 report
- 7 Edmonds Street, 1 report
- 35 Edmonds Street, 1 report
- 34 Edmonds Street, 1 report
- 33A Edmonds Street, 1 report
- 33 Edmonds Street, 1 report
- 29 Edmonds Street, 1 report
- 25 Edmonds Street, 1 report
- 21 Edmonds Street, 1 report
- 20 Edmonds Street, 1 report
- 12 Edmonds Street, 1 report
- 11 Edmonds Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 37 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 12 reports
- Trees & parks, 9 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 8 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 8 reports
- Water & drains, 7 reports
- Everything else, 2 reports
Year by year
- 2018, 5 reports
- 2019, 6 reports
- 2020, 7 reports
- 2021, 4 reports
- 2022, 6 reports
- 2023, 27 reports
- 2024, 14 reports
- 2025, 5 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- MISCELLANEOUS. (Otago Daily Times, 24 September 1889)
· Papers Past,
…tation at bubiana from what can be gathered it seems that william dobell was in charge of edmonds station and he was surprised by men from a neighbouring tribe of natives and was hacked to death by th…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 29 June 1900)
· Papers Past,
…ma 1 si vloans 70 t mrs sherwood devon street sydenham 69 pair figure ornaments mrs w key edmonds street woolston 69 miss gladys walker 108 luain street 68 mrs s h forsythe 6 york street 68 miae d mil…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 20 July 1900)
· Papers Past,
…e road st albans 70 mrs sherwood devon street sydenham 69 pair figure ornaments mrs w key edmonds streeb woolston 69 misa gladys walker 108 tuam streeb 68 mrs s h foraybhe 6 york streeb 68 mias d milu…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 31 July 1900)
· Papers Past,
…e road sb albans 70 mrs sherwood devon street sydenham 69 pair figure ornaments mra w key edmonds street woolaton 69 miss gladys walker 108 tuam street 68 mrs s h forsythe 6 york streeb 68 mias d miln…
- BACK FROM THE WAR (Otago Daily Times 31-8-1916)
· Papers Past,
…ndon, S.W.). N.Z RIFLE BRIGADE. 24/1248—Stedman, Maurices Archibald (Mrs M. A. Stedman, 9 Edmonds street, Woolston, Christchurch). N.Z. ARMY NURSING SERVICE. 22/41—Sister Taj lor, Ethel Watkms, nurse…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 January 1942)
· Papers Past,
…l pte mrs s d whitcombe 8 franklin road ponsonby in staplei john ross pte mrs a stapley 9 edmonds street woolston christchurch w stevens geoffrey maxwell pte mr h e stevens clyde f stevens john charle…
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 22 Advertisements Column 1 (New Zealand Tablet, 23 August 1878) · New Zealand Tablet,
- Page 22 Advertisements Column 1 (New Zealand Tablet, 13 September 1878) · New Zealand Tablet,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Timaru Herald, 27 October 1884) · Timaru Herald,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Timaru Herald, 03 November 1884) · Timaru Herald,
- Local & General. (Star, 30 June 1891) · Star,
- MAGISTERIAL. (Star, 04 September 1894) · Star,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 21 January 1899) · Star,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 19 August 1899) · Star,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 09 December 1905) · Star,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 24 August 1907) · Star,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 26 September 1908) · Star,
- SUNDAY NIGHT'S LIST (Evening Post, 20 September 1915) · Evening Post,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Evening Post, 09 December 1915) · Evening Post,
- Page 14 Advertisements Column 3 (Evening Post, 28 February 1920) · Evening Post,
- Page 11 Advertisements Column 2 (Evening Post, 12 March 1920) · Evening Post,
- RADIO PROGRAMMES (Evening Post, 12 November 1929) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 19 October 1936) · Evening Post,
- TODAY'S BROADCAST PROGRAMMES (Evening Post, 02 October 1939) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Dumped Rubbish, 22 Edmonds Street,
- Roads - General, 7 Edmonds St,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 23 Edmonds St,
- Pavement - Damaged, 12 Edmonds St,
- Dumped Rubbish, 31 Edmonds Street,
- Trees - General, 23 Edmonds St,
- Dumped Rubbish, 30 Edmonds Street,
- Water Leak, 14A Edmonds Street,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 26 Edmonds Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 30 Edmonds Street,
- Hazard, vehicle, 31 Edmonds Street,
- Water Leak, 31 Edmonds Street,
- Abandoned Vehicle, 37 Edmonds Street,
- Graffiti somewhere else, 22 Edmonds Street,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 37 Edmonds Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.
83 reports at 27 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (37), roads & footpaths (12), trees & parks (9).
2018, the record covers 72 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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