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Hopkins Street

105 reports at 38 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 95 separate days somebody filed something about it.

105 reports38 addresses95 days reported onfrom the air, then29 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 736th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

36 Hopkins Street, 13 reports41 Hopkins Street, 8 reports29 Hopkins Street, 7 reports25 Hopkins Street, 6 reports17 Hopkins Street, 6 reports61 Hopkins Street, 5 reports63 Hopkins Street, 4 reports48 Hopkins Street, 4 reports60 Hopkins Street, 3 reports46 Hopkins Street, 3 reports4 Hopkins Street, 3 reports35 Hopkins Street, 3 reports31A Hopkins Street, 3 reports27 Hopkins Street, 3 reports15 Hopkins Street, 3 reports12 Hopkins Street, 3 reports39 Hopkins Street, 2 reports34 Hopkins Street, 2 reports33 Hopkins Street, 2 reports23 Hopkins Street, 2 reports20 Hopkins Street, 2 reports1 Hopkins Street, 2 reports7 Hopkins Street, 1 report6A Hopkins Street, 1 report6 Hopkins Street, 1 report57 Hopkins Street, 1 report50 Hopkins Street, 1 report43 Hopkins Street, 1 report31 Hopkins Street, 1 report28 Hopkins Street, 1 report22F Hopkins Street, 1 report22E Hopkins Street, 1 report21 Hopkins Street, 1 report16 Hopkins Street, 1 report15A Hopkins Street, 1 report14 Hopkins Street, 1 report11 Hopkins Street, 1 report10 Hopkins Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Hopkins Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hopkins Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hopkins 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. 29 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Hopkins Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Woolston Park boardwalk · 127 m away Mary Dixon Park footbridge · 128 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hopkins Street in 23 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 9 seriously hurt.

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

General Request, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photo more photographs
on the Woolston wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Hopkins Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Hopkins Street?

105 reports at 38 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (33), rubbish & dumping (28), water & drains (15).

When was Hopkins Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 95 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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