Boys Place
8 reports at 3 addresses in Shirley, the first in 2017, the latest 2025. 7 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 Boys Place, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Shirley.
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
- 3 Boys Place, 5 reports
- 10 Boys Place, 2 reports
- 15 Boys Place, 1 report
What got reported
- Animals & pests, 3 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
- Rubbish & dumping, 1 report
- Roads & footpaths, 1 report
- Everything else, 1 report
Year by year
- 2017, 1 report
- 2023, 3 reports
- 2024, 1 report
- 2025, 3 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 9 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:
- THE Otago Daily Times. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1874. (Otago Daily Times, 19 December 1874)
· Papers Past,
…he contrast drawn by mr sargood at the high school the other day between the way in which boys play in melbourne and dunedin to the disfavour of the latter is another unfavourable sign we must confess…
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 open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Boys Place in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Shirley, Christchurch, New Zealand.
8 reports at 3 addresses, most often animals & pests (3), water & drains (1), vehicles & parking (1).
2017, the record covers 7 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.
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