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Gillespies Road

16 reports at 5 addresses in Kainga, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 14 separate days somebody filed something about it.

16 reports5 addresses14 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 2798th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

12 Gillespies Road, 6 reports11 Gillespies Road, 6 reports5 Gillespies Road, 2 reports2 Gillespies Road, 1 report10 Gillespies Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Gillespies Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Gillespies Road from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Gillespies Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Gillespies 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 →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Gillespies Road?

In Kainga, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Gillespies Road?

16 reports at 5 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (14), trees & parks (1), graffiti & vandalism (1).

When was Gillespies Road first reported on?

2015, the record covers 14 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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