Golf Links Road

165 reports at 53 addresses in Shirley, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 137 separate days somebody filed something about it.

165 reports 53 addresses137 days reported onfrom the air, then 4 documents carry the name 1 businessesthe 504th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Golf Links Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Golf Links Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Golf Links Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Golf Links 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

Graffiti & vandalism, 84 reports
Roads & footpaths, 37 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 21 reports
Water & drains, 9 reports
Vehicles & parking, 9 reports
Trees & parks, 5 reports

Year by year

2015, 2 reports
2016, 4 reports
2017, 3 reports
2018, 10 reports
2019, 26 reports
2020, 7 reports
2021, 3 reports
2022, 25 reports
2023, 31 reports
2024, 21 reports
2025, 17 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 24 June 1905) · Papers Past, 24 Jun 1905
…yourselves best and towme titanted sell quiet sound cow in vv profit price 3 rout shirley golf links road 9309 t7anted gigantio sale now on at��est vv and townes now your chance opposite clock tower f…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 25 July 1905) · Papers Past, 25 Jul 1905
…ing 9 i eggs pasted prize white plymouth rocks 10s white wyandottes 6s dozen rout shirley golf links road 639 for sale two barber chairs a-ko two show cases apply sutherland 207 colombo street 700 fwi…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 03 August 1907) · Papers Past, 3 Aug 1907
…iatchurch 8689 iow for sale calving three weeks quiet vy easy milker price 5 rout shirley golf links road 3570 fr sale incubator 200 egs good as new addrees w box si martin rmd opawa 8588 for sale a v…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 17 August 1907) · Papers Past, 17 Aug 1907
…on coy cashel street ow for sale calving about fortnight easy milker price 5 rout shirley golf links road 4488 f or sale gas cooker perfection 5 38 lower high street 4442 for sale columbia gramophone…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Golf Links Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

DottiClothing · 5-41 Golf Links Road

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Golf Links Road in 10 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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.