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Watsons Road

36 reports at 10 addresses in Harewood, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 27 separate days somebody filed something about it.

36 reports10 addresses27 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the name1 businessesthe 1980th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

29 Watsons Road, 22 reports91 Watsons Road, 4 reports77 Watsons Road, 2 reports30 Watsons Road, 2 reports87 Watsons Road, 1 report85 Watsons Road, 1 report81 Watsons Road, 1 report51 Watsons Road, 1 report37 Watsons Road, 1 report34–36 Watsons Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Watsons Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Watsons Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Watsons 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 businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Watsons Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Watsons Road in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoFlooding, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Harewood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Watsons Road?

In Harewood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Watsons Road?

36 reports at 10 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (28), roads & footpaths (3), trees & parks (3).

When was Watsons Road first reported on?

2016, the record covers 27 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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