Pound Road

38 reports at 14 addresses in Islington, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 35 separate days somebody filed something about it.

38 reports 14 addresses35 days reported onfrom the air, then 30 documents carry the namethe 1680th 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 Pound Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Islington.

From the air, then

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

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

Pound 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

335A Pound Road, 12 reports
361 Pound Road, 4 reports
357 Pound Road, 3 reports
335 Pound Road, 3 reports
333 Pound Road, 3 reports
325 Pound Road, 3 reports
338 Pound Road, 2 reports
111 Pound Road, 2 reports
9 Pound Road, 1 report
353 Pound Road, 1 report
340 Pound Road, 1 report
301 Pound Road, 1 report
173 Pound Road, 1 report
165–177 Pound Road, 1 report

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 20 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 13 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 2 reports
Everything else, 1 report
Trees & parks, 1 report
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2018, 3 reports
2019, 1 report
2020, 1 report
2021, 3 reports
2022, 2 reports
2023, 9 reports
2024, 6 reports
2025, 5 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 30 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 11 February 1875) · Papers Past, 11 Feb 1875
…fined ss robert gimble two horses uigh street fined ss f w delamain eight head of cattle pound road tompleton district fined ss fibb in thr open air james moore for having set fire 13 infummable matt…
CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 04 November 1875) · Papers Past, 4 Nov 1875
…t e borry ono horso east town bolt b bulmer fcwo horsos ferry road b bootfcio fcwo horses pound road jj rosser five horsos no 5 street j h knight fivo horses colombo road a knowles two horses whately…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 26 April 1877) · Papers Past, 26 Apr 1877
…tubdat pbice sixpence teeeh6lp cottage and quarter acre owe seotion from the comer of the pound road on the wilson bridge road fa 8 ofthe ohoicest sites in waltham ith five-roomed hosse in capital rep…
LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 12 April 1878) · Papers Past, 12 Apr 1878
…vo long been strangers a 5-inch main has been laid along colombo road south as far as the pound road but not a single lamp-post has as yet been put up this is a matter which concerns the sy denham bor…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 20 September 1878) · Papers Past, 20 Sept 1878
…tho lease and stock-in-trade of mr joseph t barrett at the junctionof colombo street and pound road sydehham the lcaso of i-acre laud with hbuso and shop erected has 17 years to run at a very low gro…
CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 07 July 1880) · Papers Past, 7 Jul 1880
…e bill produced the gooda were pufc oi a dray on juno 22 afc the door of tho storo in the pound road waltham rjho men engaged to work did nofc do anything accused bad not pprmission to dispose of any…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 19 July 1880) · Papers Past, 19 Jul 1880
…dras street south 3100 anted fco sell a fowls house 10 x 20 apply corner of scotfc street pound road sydenham 3098 wanted by a respactable young girl a situation as barmaid or waitress apply a m of��c…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 16 May 1881) · Papers Past, 16 May 1881
…d papanui road 8356 wanted a nurse during the day for a sick person apply bromley cottage pound road sydenham 8361 w anted a good general servant refe rences required apply to mra mein hereford streef…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 02 August 1882) · Papers Past, 2 Aug 1882
…e the hon j t peacock a corner shop and dwelling-house at the junc tion of scott read and pound road syden ham also on owner account a fine block of 2a 3r 22p fronting the drain road phillipstown nort…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 21 October 1882) · Papers Past, 21 Oct 1882
…manchester streets fcs73 anted known cure for typhoid fever and rheumatic fever chns cook pound road sydenhain 8575 wanted machinist and assistants to the dressmaking apply miss mehaffy 87 lichfield s…
CHRISTCHURCH. (West Coast Times, 19 May 1883) · Papers Past, 19 May 1883
…may 18 early this morning three nine-roomed houses belonging to frederick and walter hall pound road sydenham were burned clown the fire was from a cause unknown and began in the kitchen of a house oc…
Local & General. (Star, 02 January 1884) · Papers Past, 2 Jan 1884
…who ran away from home no less than five weeks ago was seen and caught by mr rudd in the pound road sydenham yesterday morning he was handed over to the custody of sergeant willis and taken to the po…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Pound Road in 16 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 3 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Buchanans Road & Pound Road, 44 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

The stops on it, 1

1 Metro stop on Pound Road in Islington, in ECan’s stop record: served by route 5.

Temp - Waterloo Rd near Islington Ave

Every route in the record →

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.