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Harrys Way

10 reports at 8 addresses in Redwood, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 10 separate days somebody filed something about it.

10 reports8 addresses10 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 3277th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

26 Harrys Way, 3 reports5 Harrys Way, 1 report3 Harrys Way, 1 report25 Harrys Way, 1 report20 Harrys Way, 1 report15 Harrys Way, 1 report12 Harrys Way, 1 report1 Harrys Way, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Harrys Way?

In Redwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Harrys Way?

10 reports at 8 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (4), water & drains (3), rubbish & dumping (2).

When was Harrys Way first reported on?

2020, the record covers 10 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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