Furlong Street
8 reports at 7 addresses in Yaldhurst, the first in 2023, the latest 2026. 8 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 Furlong Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Yaldhurst.
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
- 3 Furlong Street, 2 reports
- 9 Furlong Street, 1 report
- 31 Furlong Street, 1 report
- 21 Furlong Street, 1 report
- 20 Furlong Street, 1 report
- 19 Furlong Street, 1 report
- 15 Furlong Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 3 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 3 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
- Trees & parks, 1 report
Year by year
- 2023, 3 reports
- 2025, 3 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 4 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:
- CANTERBURY DOINGS. (Otago Witness, 13 July 1888)
· Papers Past,
…mes a slight dip on rounding the bend and a steep descent to tattenham corner with a four-furlong straight beyond the general formation of the track too the ground is very uneven in itself and the str…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 31 December 1941)
· Papers Past,
…erick pte mrs w crawford te kirl opuuake taranaki m cropp carl albert pte mr w m cropp 12 furlong street hawera f cubis bertram harold cpl mrs a m cubis hautapu cambridge m cunningham john thomas pte…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 13 January 1942)
· Papers Past,
…ur frederick pte mrs w crawford oiuinake not stated cropp cnrl albert pte mr w m cropp 12 furlong street hawern f darby edwin richard pte mrs h darby 112 leach street new plymouth m davis herbert geor…
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.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 21 Furlong Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 15 Furlong Street,
- Pavement - Damaged, 19 Furlong Street,
- Pavement - Damaged, 20 Furlong Street,
- Hazard, vehicle, 9 Furlong Street,
- Pavement - Damaged, 3 Furlong Street,
- Park - General Request, 3 Furlong Street,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 31 Furlong Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Yaldhurst, Christchurch, New Zealand.
8 reports at 7 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (3), roads & footpaths (3), vehicles & parking (1).
2023, the record covers 8 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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