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Gilberthorpes Road

59 reports at 19 addresses in Islington, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 53 separate days somebody filed something about it.

59 reports19 addresses53 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 1242nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

7 Gilberthorpes Road, 20 reports5 Gilberthorpes Road, 5 reports20 Gilberthorpes Road, 4 reports6 Gilberthorpes Road, 3 reports3 Gilberthorpes Road, 3 reports25 Gilberthorpes Road, 3 reports2 Gilberthorpes Road, 3 reports12 Gilberthorpes Road, 3 reports5-15 Gilberthorpes Road, 2 reports4 Gilberthorpes Road, 2 reports14 Gilberthorpes Road, 2 reports10 Gilberthorpes Road, 2 reports8 Gilberthorpes Road, 1 report4–10 Gilberthorpes Road, 1 report37 Gilberthorpes Road, 1 report26 Gilberthorpes Road, 1 report25-29 Gilberthorpes Road, 1 report17-23 Gilberthorpes Road, 1 report16 Gilberthorpes Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Gilberthorpes Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Gilberthorpes Road from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Gilberthorpes Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Gilberthorpes 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 crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Gilberthorpes Road in 6 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 Gilberthorpes Road?

In Islington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Gilberthorpes Road?

59 reports at 19 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (17), graffiti & vandalism (17), roads & footpaths (11).

When was Gilberthorpes Road first reported on?

2016, the record covers 53 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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