Beckford Road
102 reports at 29 addresses in Saint Martins, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 87 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 Beckford Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Saint Martins.
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
- 56 Beckford Road, 22 reports
- 57 Beckford Road, 13 reports
- 50 Beckford Road, 8 reports
- 31 Beckford Road, 8 reports
- 40 Beckford Road, 5 reports
- 23 Beckford Road, 5 reports
- 47 Beckford Road, 4 reports
- 18 Beckford Road, 4 reports
- 55 Beckford Road, 3 reports
- 36 Beckford Road, 3 reports
- 2 Beckford Road, 3 reports
- 19 Beckford Road, 3 reports
- 53 Beckford Road, 2 reports
- 44 Beckford Road, 2 reports
- 34B Beckford Road, 2 reports
- 24 Beckford Road, 2 reports
- 8 Beckford Road, 1 report
- 65 Beckford Road, 1 report
- 6 Beckford Road, 1 report
- 41 Beckford Road, 1 report
- 38 Beckford Road, 1 report
- 35 Beckford Road, 1 report
- 34 Beckford Road, 1 report
- 29 Beckford Road, 1 report
- 26 Beckford Road, 1 report
- 25A Beckford Road, 1 report
- 25 Beckford Road, 1 report
- 21A Beckford Road, 1 report
- 10-2 Beckford Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 43 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 31 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 10 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 8 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 4 reports
- Everything else, 2 reports
- Trees & parks, 2 reports
- Animals & pests, 2 reports
Year by year
- 2017, 1 report
- 2018, 6 reports
- 2019, 5 reports
- 2020, 2 reports
- 2021, 6 reports
- 2022, 34 reports
- 2023, 15 reports
- 2024, 13 reports
- 2025, 14 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 25 September 1909)
· Papers Past,
…girl as general sleep at home l3y colombo street 491 anted paddock ploughed a john stone beckford road st martins 489 anted sell 2 huts 14 x 8 one on wheels voice 126 kilmoro street 490 w7 anted sell…
- Two Other Statements (NZ Truth, 25 April 1925)
· Papers Past,
…martins heathcote and lyttelton hills on two occasions i have slept on my verandah at 10 beckford road just before 1914 while in christchurch my wife was staying with her parents she had been nursing…
- N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 17 September 1941)
· Papers Past,
…dsor place wellington w seymour patrick charles lsgt mr c w seymour care mrs cowlishaw 21 beckford road christchurch f smith george alexander tpr mrs v e smith 29 cook street hamilton east m suttie da…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 04 May 1943)
· Papers Past,
…porter william major rev k poata pupuke kaeo f black herbert c captain alra m r black 18 beckford road st martins w bullock-douglas george a h captain mrs a e bullock-douglas care navy office welling…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 05 May 1943)
· Papers Past,
…eported woundednow reported not wounded but missing black herbert c capt mrs m r black 18 beckford road st martins christchitrch w wounded sobins alexander s lieut mr h j robins quaenstown f power jam…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 26 May 1943)
· Papers Past,
…ualties killed in actionpreviously reported missing black herbert c capt mrs m r black 18 beckford rd st martins christchurch w taylor gordon m lieut mr j taylor camhridge rd hillcrest hamilton f upto…
- In Bankruptcy
· New Zealand Gazette,
…3 Norman Road, Gisborne, at 11.00 a.m.Cameron, Christopher Alan Douglas, supervisor, of18 Beckford Road, St Martins, Christchurch, at 11.10 a.m.Davis, Shannon Darvey Paul, sales consultant, of 14 Pira…
- No Asset Procedures
· New Zealand Gazette,
…ngela Dawn, 13 Pukeroa Place, Papakura, Auckland – 25 June 2008.Gray, Jonathan Andrew, 4A Beckford Road, St Martins, Christchurch – 22 June 2008.Guzzo, Dominic Joseph, 22 Edenvale Crescent, Mt Eden, A…
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The businesses on it, 4
Premises whose address in the directory is Beckford Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
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 Beckford Road in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Pavement - General, 8 Beckford Road,
- Water Leak, 47 Beckford Road,
- Water Leak, 34 Beckford Road,
- Water Leak, 25 Beckford Rd,
- Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 57 Beckford Road,
- Pavement - Damaged, 23 Beckford Road,
- Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 57 Beckford Road,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 50 Beckford Rd,
- Water Leak, 47 Beckford Road,
- Water Leak, 47 Beckford Rd,
- Trees - General, 57 Beckford Road,
- Water Leak, 50 Beckford Rd,
- Pavement - Damaged, 55 Beckford Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 36 Beckford Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 36 Beckford Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Saint Martins, Christchurch, New Zealand.
102 reports at 29 addresses, most often water & drains (43), roads & footpaths (31), graffiti & vandalism (10).
2017, the record covers 87 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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