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Waterman Place

5 reports at 3 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2019, the latest 2025. 5 separate days somebody filed something about it.

5 reports3 addresses5 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 4216th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

59 Waterman Place, 2 reports39A Waterman Place, 2 reports39C Waterman Place, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Waterman Place from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Waterman Place from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Waterman Place 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.

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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Waterman Place?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Waterman Place?

5 reports at 3 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (2), graffiti & vandalism (2), trees & parks (1).

When was Waterman Place first reported on?

2019, the record covers 5 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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