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Long Street

44 reports at 11 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 38 separate days somebody filed something about it.

44 reports11 addresses38 days reported onfrom the air, then154 documents carry the namethe 1605th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

30 Long Street, 15 reports16 Long Street, 7 reports26 Long Street, 5 reports12 Long Street, 5 reports28 Long Street, 3 reports2 Long Street, 3 reports2-12 Long Street, 2 reports2F Long Street, 1 report22 Long Street, 1 report2/12 Long Street, 1 report18 Long Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Long Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Long Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Long 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. 154 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 open map’s record.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 10 m away Woolston Cut canal · 41 m away

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

Overgrown Vegetation, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoNoise - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photo more photographs
on the Woolston wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Long Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Long Street?

44 reports at 11 addresses, most often trees & parks (13), roads & footpaths (9), water & drains (8).

When was Long Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 38 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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