Sandwich Road
151 reports at 39 addresses in Beckenham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 131 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 Sandwich Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Beckenham.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- 71 Sandwich Road, 36 reports
- 92 Sandwich Road, 21 reports
- 6 Sandwich Road, 11 reports
- 17 Sandwich Road, 8 reports
- 65 Sandwich Road, 6 reports
- 35 Sandwich Road, 6 reports
- 31C Sandwich Road, 5 reports
- 31 Sandwich Road, 5 reports
- 21 Sandwich Road, 5 reports
- 20 Sandwich Road, 4 reports
- 18 Sandwich Road, 3 reports
- 88 Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 82 Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 80 Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 78 Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 64 Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 63A Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 63-65 Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 63 Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 61 Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 57E Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 40 Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 16 Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 14 Sandwich Road, 2 reports
- 84 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 74 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 72 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 52 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 50 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 46 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 43 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 41 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 39-41 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 39 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 33 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 26 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 15-31 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 15 Sandwich Road, 1 report
- 10 Sandwich Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 46 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 35 reports
- Trees & parks, 26 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 17 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 12 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 12 reports
- Everything else, 2 reports
- Animals & pests, 1 report
Year by year
- 2015, 2 reports
- 2016, 2 reports
- 2017, 6 reports
- 2018, 9 reports
- 2019, 14 reports
- 2020, 3 reports
- 2021, 9 reports
- 2022, 25 reports
- 2023, 46 reports
- 2024, 15 reports
- 2025, 12 reports
On the register
- Former Beckenham Library and Setting, 65 Sandwich Road
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 22 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 14 January 1905)
· Papers Past,
…cost 20 excellent drainage j-acre section garden etc let at 10s good tenant 270 asl 4kaa-sandwich road beckenham do7j new house 5 rooms washhou��e copper bathroom h and c water every modern convenien…
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 21 January 1905)
· Papers Past,
…p cost 20 excellent drainage i-acre section garden etc let at 10s good tenant 270 asi 4kf sandwich road beckenham ojj new house 6 rooms washhouse copper bathroom h and c water every modern convenience…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 24 January 1905)
· Papers Past,
…cost 20 excellent drainage g-acre section garden etc let at 10s good tenant 270 asl r rin sandwich road beckenham dvolu new house 5 rooms washhouse copper bathroom a and c water every modern convenien…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 30 January 1905)
· Papers Past,
…cost 20 excellent drainage i-acre section garden etc let at 10s good tenant 270 asl praa sandwich road beckenham dvulv new house 5 room 3 washhouse copper bathroom h and c water every modern convenie…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 01 February 1905)
· Papers Past,
…cost 20 excellent drainage j-acre section garden etc let at 10s good tenant 270 asl i caa-sandwich road beckenham dvolu new house 5 rooms washhouse copper bathroom h and c water every modern convenien…
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 04 February 1905)
· Papers Past,
…p cost 20 excellent drainage i-acre section garden etc let at 10s good tenant 270 asl kaa sandwich road beckenham dtolu new house 5 rooms washhousa copper bathroom h and c water every modern convenien…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 08 February 1905)
· Papers Past,
…cost 20 excellent drainage i-acre section garden etc let at 10s ood tenant 270 asl rfrnn sandwich road beckenham cmjj new house 6 rooms washhouse copper bathroom h and c water every modern convenienc…
- CITY COUNCIL. (Star, 10 June 1908)
· Papers Past,
…ton estate asking that the council should form the eastern and western terraces and widen sandwich road was referred to the works committee for a report the council went into committee to further cons…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 15 December 1909)
· Papers Past,
…5 sell cheap apply 216 cashel street for sale 55 fine section 24 perches 50ft j frontage sandwich road fisherton terms to let 8 new shops colombo street near moorhouse avenue 12s d 15s 17 6d double m…
- THE ROLL OF HONOUR (Otago Daily Times 25-6-1915)
· Papers Past,
…llington). CANTERBURY BATTALION. 6/1627 Private EDWARD KENNETH MILLBURN (Mrs E. ML MUmum, Sandwich road, Christchurch). 6/108—Private JOHN CLEMENT MULLINS (Mrs E. Mullins, Upper Riccarton, Christchurc…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Ellesmere Guardian, 21 January 1922)
· Papers Past,
…ster streeet christjehureh miss elsie franklyn 37 haast street linwood mrs p a judkins 01 sandwich road beckenham the supply stores ltd 420 colombo street christchureh leeston to christchurch motor se…
- Page 10 Advertisements Column 3 (NZ Truth, 13 December 1928)
· Papers Past,
…et after taking two doses she was 6ur ed and has not had another attack signed c adams 74 sandwich road beckenham 181027 i suffered severely from gallstones about 18 years ago and was advised by sever…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
Schools on it
The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.
- Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto, Full Primary · decile 8 · EQI 412 · roll 489
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.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Sandwich Road in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
- THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE. (Otago Daily Times, 22 June 1887) · Otago Daily Times,
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 21 December 1901) · Star,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 17 January 1902) · Star,
- Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 27 November 1909) · Star,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 28 October 1943) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Water Fountain, 71 Sandwich Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 92 Sandwich Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 57E Sandwich Road,
- Fallen Tree, 63 Sandwich Rd,
- Water Leak, 64 Sandwich Road,
- Water Leak, 64 Sandwich Rd,
- Water General, 61 Sandwich Rd,
- Trees - General, 92 Sandwich Road,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 71 Sandwich Road,
- Road Signage, 20 Sandwich Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 21 Sandwich Rd,
- Hazard, vehicle, 63 Sandwich Rd,
- Road Signage, 43 Sandwich Rd,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 92 Sandwich Road,
- Water Leak, 31C Sandwich Rd,
Questions, answered briefly
In Beckenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.
151 reports at 39 addresses, most often water & drains (46), roads & footpaths (35), trees & parks (26).
2015, the record covers 131 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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