Shirley Road
38 reports at 6 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 34 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Shirley Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Richmond.
From the air, then
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
- 10 Shirley Road, 25 reports
- 36 Shirley Road, 6 reports
- 38 Shirley Road, 3 reports
- 46 Shirley Road, 2 reports
- 48 Shirley Road, 1 report
- 34 Shirley Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 15 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 8 reports
- Trees & parks, 7 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 3 reports
- Everything else, 3 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
- Animals & pests, 1 report
Year by year
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 6 reports
- 2020, 3 reports
- 2021, 1 report
- 2022, 5 reports
- 2023, 6 reports
- 2024, 9 reports
- 2025, 3 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 85 on the shelf; the 4 earliest:
- BOROUGH COUNCIL. (Star, 17 January 1882)
· Papers Past,
…e request that tho draimgo board fouce or cover in drahi�� and crook in edgewaro road and shirley road near mr di-kenson and that tho drainage board be held responsible for any accident that may uriso…
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 05 October 1894)
· Papers Past,
…rs imprisonment riding on a footpath robert qibb�� for riciing a horse on the footpath on shirley road st albane on the afternoon of sept 7 was fined 10s and costs youthful offbndebs two boys named th…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 03 August 1897)
· Papers Past,
…street n section 45ft frontage s rooms scullery bathroom irou roof verandah 350 st albans shirley road three-eighths acre well fenced and planted garden and fruit trees good house 3 rooms pantry scull…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 19 October 1897)
· Papers Past,
…copper iron roof sewer connec tion concrete paths iron gate c a very nice property al 71 shirley road 1 acre land srood l orchard comfortable houe 1 rooms scullery iron roof a very handy property jo1…
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.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Shirley Road in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Marshland Road & Shirley Road, 64 crashes pinned to the pairing.
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.
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 17 February 1899) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 24 February 1899) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 28 February 1899) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 03 March 1899) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 07 March 1899) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 14 March 1899) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 28 March 1899) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 31 March 1899) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 07 April 1899) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 02 June 1899) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 06 June 1899) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- THE TRAMWAY PROPOSALS. (Star, 09 June 1903) · Star,
- TO-DAY'S ELECTIONS. (Star, 06 December 1905) · Star,
- THE COMING ELECTIONS. (Star, 22 June 1906) · Star,
- TRAMWAY BOARD ELECTIONS. (Star, 26 June 1906) · Star,
- TELEGRAMS. (West Coast Times, 01 October 1909) · West Coast Times,
- ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES (Taranaki Herald, 01 October 1909) · Taranaki Herald,
- CASUALTIES., (Hawera & Normanby Star, 01 October 1909) · Hawera & Normanby Star,
- THE 44th LIST (Evening Post, 31 May 1915) · Evening Post,
- TROLLEY BUSES (Evening Post, 01 September 1932) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 10 Shirley Road,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 10 Shirley Rd,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 10 Shirley Road,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 10 Shirley Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 46 Shirley Road,
- Playground Equipment, 10 Shirley Road,
- Fallen Tree, 10 Shirley Road,
- Abandoned Vehicle, 10 Shirley Road,
- Facility - General Request, 10 Shirley Road,
- Facility - General Request, 10 Shirley Road,
- Facility - General Request, 10 Shirley Road,
- Playground Equipment, 10 Shirley Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 10 Shirley Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 10 Shirley Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 10 Shirley Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.
38 reports at 6 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (15), graffiti & vandalism (8), trees & parks (7).
2018, the record covers 34 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Marshland Road and Shirley Road, 64 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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