Waterloo Road

146 reports at 54 addresses in Islington, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 121 separate days somebody filed something about it.

146 reports 54 addresses121 days reported onfrom the air, then 22 documents carry the name 3 businessesthe 570th 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 Islington.

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

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 45 reports
Roads & footpaths, 39 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 34 reports
Trees & parks, 17 reports
Water & drains, 10 reports
Vehicles & parking, 1 report

Year by year

2017, 4 reports
2018, 5 reports
2019, 12 reports
2020, 14 reports
2021, 11 reports
2022, 18 reports
2023, 15 reports
2024, 25 reports
2025, 29 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…