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Tomes Road

81 reports at 38 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 80 separate days somebody filed something about it.

81 reports38 addresses80 days reported onfrom the air, then26 documents carry the namethe 878th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

73 Tomes Road, 9 reports82 Tomes Road, 5 reports69 Tomes Road, 5 reports34 Tomes Road, 4 reports117 Tomes Road, 4 reports91 Tomes Road, 3 reports9 Tomes Road, 3 reports77 Tomes Road, 3 reports60 Tomes Road, 3 reports48 Tomes Road, 3 reports119 Tomes Road, 3 reports114 Tomes Road, 3 reports93 Tomes Road, 2 reports79 Tomes Road, 2 reports71 Tomes Road, 2 reports41 Tomes Road, 2 reports20 Tomes Road, 2 reports16 Tomes Road, 2 reports115 Tomes Road, 2 reports94 Tomes Road, 1 report84 Tomes Road, 1 report81 Tomes Road, 1 report56 Tomes Road, 1 report47 Tomes Road, 1 report46 Tomes Road, 1 report4 Tomes Road, 1 report37 Tomes Road, 1 report33 Tomes Road, 1 report30A Tomes Road, 1 report30 Tomes Road, 1 report24 Tomes Road, 1 report23A Tomes Road, 1 report22 Tomes Road, 1 report14A Tomes Road, 1 report12 Tomes Road, 1 report106 Tomes Road, 1 report105 Tomes Road, 1 report103 Tomes Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Tomes Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tomes Road from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tomes Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tomes 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. 26 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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.

Dudley Creek stream · 21 m away Papanui Stream stream · 45 m away Rutland Reserve footbridge · 82 m away Nightingale Reserve set of steps · 124 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Tomes 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.

As it was reported

Poles and Signage - General, a report photoRoad Blockage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Tomes Road?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Tomes Road?

81 reports at 38 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (33), water & drains (24), trees & parks (8).

When was Tomes Road first reported on?

2017, the record covers 80 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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