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Blakes Road

79 reports at 29 addresses in Belfast, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 61 separate days somebody filed something about it.

79 reports29 addresses61 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 1087th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

59 Blakes Road, 10 reports8 Blakes Road, 8 reports20 Blakes Road, 6 reports2 Blakes Road, 6 reports18 Blakes Road, 6 reports12R Blakes Road, 6 reports17 Blakes Road, 4 reports4 Blakes Road, 3 reports29 Blakes Road, 3 reports25 Blakes Road, 3 reports8R Blakes Road, 2 reports88 Blakes Road, 2 reports39 Blakes Road, 2 reports19R Blakes Road, 2 reports14 Blakes Road, 2 reports61 Blakes Road, 1 report50 Blakes Road, 1 report47 Blakes Road, 1 report45 Blakes Road, 1 report41 Blakes Road, 1 report37 Blakes Road, 1 report33 Blakes Road, 1 report31 Blakes Road, 1 report27 Blakes Road, 1 report23R Blakes Road, 1 report23A Blakes Road, 1 report12 Blakes Road, 1 report10A Blakes Road, 1 report10 Blakes Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Blakes Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Blakes Road from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Blakes Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Blakes Road 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

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 Blakes Road in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Blakes Road?

In Belfast, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Blakes Road?

79 reports at 29 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (28), roads & footpaths (28), trees & parks (8).

When was Blakes Road first reported on?

2017, the record covers 61 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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