Waterloo Road

520 reports at 128 addresses in Hornby, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 383 separate days somebody filed something about it.

520 reports 128 addresses383 days reported onfrom the air, then 22 documents carry the name 2 businessesthe 86th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Waterloo Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Waterloo Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Waterloo Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Waterloo 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

197 Waterloo Road, 50 reports
190a Waterloo Road, 25 reports
180 Waterloo Road, 24 reports
197-239 Waterloo Road, 15 reports
260 Waterloo Road, 14 reports
241 Waterloo Road, 14 reports
79 Waterloo Road, 13 reports
35 Waterloo Road, 13 reports
192 Waterloo Road, 13 reports
252 Waterloo Road, 12 reports
190 Waterloo Road, 12 reports
26 Waterloo Road, 10 reports
264 Waterloo Road, 9 reports
193A Waterloo Road, 9 reports
135 Waterloo Road, 9 reports
187 Waterloo Road, 7 reports
140 Waterloo Road, 7 reports
131 Waterloo Road, 7 reports
82 Waterloo Road, 6 reports
31 Waterloo Road, 6 reports
272 Waterloo Road, 6 reports
189 Waterloo Road, 6 reports
158 Waterloo Road, 6 reports
129 Waterloo Road, 6 reports
75 Waterloo Road, 5 reports
65 Waterloo Road, 5 reports
29 Waterloo Road, 5 reports
284 Waterloo Road, 5 reports
270 Waterloo Road, 5 reports
258 Waterloo Road, 5 reports
253 Waterloo Road, 5 reports
186-188 Waterloo Road, 5 reports
88 Waterloo Road, 4 reports
78 Waterloo Road, 4 reports
290 Waterloo Road, 4 reports
274 Waterloo Road, 4 reports
241-243 Waterloo Road, 4 reports
182 Waterloo Road, 4 reports
144 Waterloo Road, 4 reports
142 Waterloo Road, 4 reports
133 Waterloo Road, 4 reports
125 Waterloo Road, 4 reports
112 Waterloo Road, 4 reports
98 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
85 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
276 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
27 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
205–235 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
195 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
186 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
174 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
167E Waterloo Road, 3 reports
161 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
156 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
152 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
101 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
67 Waterloo Road, 2 reports
66 Waterloo Road, 2 reports
63 Waterloo Road, 2 reports
51 Waterloo Road, 2 reports

and the other 68 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 201 reports
Roads & footpaths, 109 reports
Water & drains, 95 reports
Trees & parks, 56 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 40 reports
Vehicles & parking, 12 reports
Everything else, 7 reports

Year by year

2016, 4 reports
2017, 45 reports
2018, 55 reports
2019, 39 reports
2020, 26 reports
2021, 30 reports
2022, 72 reports
2023, 66 reports
2024, 58 reports
2025, 80 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 22 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Otago Witness, 03 March 1892) · Papers Past, 3 Mar 1892
…ried to the prisoner on the 7th of march 1890 and that they lived together at lodgings in waterloo road where he left london to go to folkestone on returning two days afterwards he found that his wife…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Evening Post, 26 March 1925) · Papers Past, 26 Mar 1925
auctions auction clearance sale of s cßrifs owls plant and on the property waterloo road lower hutt on saturday 28th march at 215 pm h ernest leighton has receiv ed instructions from d…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Evening Post, 08 November 1926) · Papers Past, 8 Nov 1926
…h norsewood hb 6 5 0 0 mrs mcpherson okuru south westland 7 5 g 0 miss bessie gardiner 54 waterloo road lower hutt 8 5 0 0 miss p lucre brook street nelson 9 3 0 0 mrs j wilson salisbury street levin…
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 05 December 1936) · Papers Past, 5 Dec 1936
…dy beauchamp hobson street miss pat macalister invercargill is the guest of mrs a m adams waterloo road lower hutt before going further north mrs vincent ward is a wellington visitor to auckland mrs c…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (Evening Post, 13 May 1939) · Papers Past, 13 May 1939
…s l a l renshaw 18 white s miss f w hayman 5 norana avenue line remuera mrs p e freeme 89 waterloo road mrs s a hill 661 manakau road wellington epsom miss r brown 3 somerset avenue miss g w hynes 15…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 8 (Evening Post, 28 March 1940) · Papers Past, 28 Mar 1940
…nished tel 26-464 after 6 pm board offered 2 clean working men close to bus and train 276 waterloo road good board wanted by young man handy courtenay place facilities for study 2313 evg post young bu…
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 08 May 1940) · Papers Past, 8 May 1940
…d is the guest of mrs alex duncan mrs gollan newton remuera is staying with mrs a m adams waterloo road lower hutt mrs f h read wanganui mrs t v morrin and miss p morrin have returned home after spend…
N.Z. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 07 August 1940) · Papers Past, 7 Aug 1940
…perry able seaman rnvr nz wounded in hm trawler drummer his mother is mrs mary perry 276 waterloo road lower hutt wellington these are the first war casualties to be sustained by the new zealand roya…
LIST OF PATIENTS (Evening Post, 02 October 1941) · Papers Past, 2 Oct 1941
…llan s j pte dunedin rittfpte a j lcpl christchurch rifran j a pte mrs e gilligan 268 gil waterloo road lower hutt m glengarry t f pte taihape riue w a pte christchurch tsfy c w pte new plymouth griff…
MEN WHO ARE NOW 21 (Evening Post, 03 December 1941) · Papers Past, 3 Dec 1941
…2nd aa battery gboves p vv 187 sutherland rd c-uthriev3 rk-26 queens rd lr hutt guy 8 276 waterloo rd lr hutt halford h r 55 slajoribanks st hall c c 361 adelaide rd hall t r h 575 high st lr hutt han…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 31 December 1941) · Papers Past, 31 Dec 1941
…mrs m flibbert 784 manukau road epsom auckland w ihigson harold tbdr miss e higson i 140 waterloo road lower hutt sister horn james gordon pte mrs j horn 15a grove street st kilda dunedin w horne tho…
TERRITORIAL SERVICE CALL-UP (Evening Post, 21 January 1942) · Papers Past, 21 Jan 1942
…e f 37 webb st doig james x c uss co ltd doig ronald d 24 hathaway aye dolan william 198 waterloo rd lh doldex george j 1 rua st donald arthur r 146 hanson st donaldson james 28 downer st lh doxx rob…

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.

Hornby High School, Secondary (Year 7-15) · decile 3 · EQI 489 · roll 1,015
Hornby Primary School, Contributing · decile 3 · EQI 489 · roll 275

The businesses on it, 2

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

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Kyle Park set of steps · 15 m away Kyle Park footbridge · 107 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Waterloo Road in 40 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 4 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: State Highway 1S & Waterloo Road, 51 crashes pinned to the pairing, 1 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.