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Glenroy Street

159 reports at 43 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 135 separate days somebody filed something about it.

159 reports43 addresses135 days reported onfrom the air, then5 documents carry the namethe 518th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

52 Glenroy Street, 25 reports46 Glenroy Street, 14 reports77 Glenroy Street, 11 reports56 Glenroy Street, 11 reports43 Glenroy Street, 9 reports68 Glenroy Street, 8 reports57 Glenroy Street, 8 reports41 Glenroy Street, 7 reports48 Glenroy Street, 6 reports7 Glenroy Street, 5 reports34 Glenroy Street, 5 reports13 Glenroy Street, 4 reports59 Glenroy Street, 3 reports55 Glenroy Street, 3 reports75 Glenroy Street, 2 reports63 Glenroy Street, 2 reports47A Glenroy Street, 2 reports47 Glenroy Street, 2 reports35 Glenroy Street, 2 reports30 Glenroy Street, 2 reports28 Glenroy Street, 2 reports24B Glenroy Street, 2 reports23 Glenroy Street, 2 reports21 Glenroy Street, 2 reports11 Glenroy Street, 2 reports8 Glenroy Street, 1 report64 Glenroy Street, 1 report62 Glenroy Street, 1 report61 Glenroy Street, 1 report60 Glenroy Street, 1 report54–58 Glenroy Street, 1 report54 Glenroy Street, 1 report50 Glenroy Street, 1 report46A Glenroy Street, 1 report4 Glenroy Street, 1 report31 Glenroy Street, 1 report25 Glenroy Street, 1 report22 Glenroy Street, 1 report19 Glenroy Street, 1 report18 Glenroy Street, 1 report17 Glenroy Street, 1 report12 Glenroy Street, 1 report10 Glenroy Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Glenroy Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Glenroy Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Glenroy 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. 5 on the shelf; the 4 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 · 147 m away Christchurch Quay Reserve set of steps · 131 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Glenroy Street in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 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 photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, 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 photo more photographs
on the Woolston wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Glenroy Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Glenroy Street?

159 reports at 43 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (72), graffiti & vandalism (32), water & drains (31).

When was Glenroy Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 135 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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