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Somes Road

22 reports at 7 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 18 separate days somebody filed something about it.

22 reports7 addresses18 days reported onfrom the air, thenthe 2485th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

18 Somes Road, 7 reports1 Somes Road, 5 reports15 Somes Road, 4 reports17 Somes Road, 3 reports6 Somes Road, 1 report2 Somes Road, 1 report14 Somes Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Somes Road from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Somes 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

What got reported

Year by year

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 Somes Road?

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Somes Road?

22 reports at 7 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (11), water & drains (4), everything else (3).

When was Somes Road first reported on?

2019, the record covers 18 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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