Cornwall Road

34 reports at 20 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 31 separate days somebody filed something about it.

34 reports 20 addresses31 days reported onfrom the air, then 14 documents carry the namethe 1808th 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 Cornwall Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Lyttelton.

From the air, then

Cornwall Road from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

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

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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

3 Cornwall Road, 5 reports
41 Cornwall Road, 3 reports
53 Cornwall Road, 2 reports
51 Cornwall Road, 2 reports
49 Cornwall Road, 2 reports
46 Cornwall Road, 2 reports
4 Cornwall Road, 2 reports
2A Cornwall Road, 2 reports
24 Cornwall Road, 2 reports
1 Cornwall Road, 2 reports
47 Cornwall Road, 1 report
44 Cornwall Road, 1 report
4-8 Cornwall Road, 1 report
37 Cornwall Road, 1 report
33 Cornwall Road, 1 report
30A Cornwall Road, 1 report
30 Cornwall Road, 1 report
23-27 Cornwall Road, 1 report
22A Cornwall Road, 1 report
10 Cornwall Road, 1 report

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 18 reports
Water & drains, 8 reports
Trees & parks, 6 reports
Vehicles & parking, 1 report
Everything else, 1 report

Year by year

2017, 3 reports
2018, 5 reports
2019, 2 reports
2020, 2 reports
2022, 4 reports
2023, 2 reports
2024, 4 reports
2025, 2 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 14 on the shelf; the 8 earliest:

Page 10 Advertisements Column 6 (Evening Post, 08 February 1923) · Papers Past, 8 Feb 1923
…r findlay 476 tum street unwood chrlatehureh znd prize luxurious arm-chair mr w loader 17 cornwall road lyhelton 3rd prize 1 dozen stainless knives mn j joyce box so3 chrutchurch 4o consolation prizes…
WINNER OF £2000 (Evening Post, 21 March 1932) · Papers Past, 21 Mar 1932
…coogan matawhero gisbornej mrs oliver longburn j r 8 wynyard street auckland mrs brookes cornwall road lyttelton w hurley northcote unluckysiba box 101 hawera miss brown box 17 newstead waikato mrs s…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 23 May 1941) · Papers Past, 23 May 1941
…mc laren 184 balmoral road mount eden w pte alexander dickson mcmurray mr a d mcmurray 7 cornwall road papatoetoe f sgt louis gabriel mendelssohn mr mendelssohn 6 madeira road napier 1 sgt watson ale…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 09 July 1941) · Papers Past, 9 Jul 1941
…ert edward pte mrs s scott main road trentham m walker wi broughton pte mrs t j walker 18 cornwall road papatoetoe w watt frank alfred tcpl mrs e b watt onslow road-papakura wi wipert buck pte mrs rap…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 January 1942) · Papers Past, 2 Jan 1942
…mr g odell 101 wainui street riccarton f olsons edward john charles pte mrs e j olson 16 cornwall road lyttelton m orr walter richard pte mrs 61 t orr 10 park rrtad littlngbnurne kent england w paisl…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 10 January 1942) · Papers Past, 10 Jan 1942
…mrs j nixon liverpool street trentham tu olson edward john charles pte mrs e j j olson 16 cornwall road lytteltou i m park joseph wiiyain pte mrs a garrick moorehouse street morrinsvllle m pees arthur…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 13 January 1942) · Papers Past, 13 Jan 1942
…gnr mrs g simpson valley road hikurangl m smith bertram john arthur pte mrs m e smith 12 cornwall road lyttelton w stitt ronald william w 011 mrs m r stitt 17 cheltenham road devonport w stone charle…
N.Z.E.F. ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 03 August 1942) · Papers Past, 3 Aug 1942
…et tlmaru m annett cecil pte mrs m annett tinwald m appleby bryan h sgt mrs b appleby 509 cornwall road hastings m barrett malta t pte mrs m barrett panui house temuka w barry patrick x pte mrs b barr…

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

The named ground

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

Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery set of steps · 84 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cornwall Road in 1 crash 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.