Waterloo Road
5 reports at 4 addresses in Sockburn, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 5 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 Waterloo Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Sockburn.
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
- 9 Waterloo Road, 2 reports
- 26 Waterloo Road, 1 report
- 18 Waterloo Road, 1 report
- 16 Waterloo Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Roads & footpaths, 2 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2021, 1 report
- 2023, 1 report
- 2025, 2 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 22 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Otago Witness, 03 March 1892)
· Papers Past,
…ried to the prisoner on the 7th of march 1890 and that they lived together at lodgings in waterloo road where he left london to go to folkestone on returning two days afterwards he found that his wife…
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Evening Post, 26 March 1925)
· Papers Past,
auctions auction clearance sale of s cßrifs owls plant and on the property waterloo road lower hutt on saturday 28th march at 215 pm h ernest leighton has receiv ed instructions from d…
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Evening Post, 08 November 1926)
· Papers Past,
…h norsewood hb 6 5 0 0 mrs mcpherson okuru south westland 7 5 g 0 miss bessie gardiner 54 waterloo road lower hutt 8 5 0 0 miss p lucre brook street nelson 9 3 0 0 mrs j wilson salisbury street levin…
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 05 December 1936)
· Papers Past,
…dy beauchamp hobson street miss pat macalister invercargill is the guest of mrs a m adams waterloo road lower hutt before going further north mrs vincent ward is a wellington visitor to auckland mrs c…
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (Evening Post, 13 May 1939)
· Papers Past,
…s l a l renshaw 18 white s miss f w hayman 5 norana avenue line remuera mrs p e freeme 89 waterloo road mrs s a hill 661 manakau road wellington epsom miss r brown 3 somerset avenue miss g w hynes 15…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 8 (Evening Post, 28 March 1940)
· Papers Past,
…nished tel 26-464 after 6 pm board offered 2 clean working men close to bus and train 276 waterloo road good board wanted by young man handy courtenay place facilities for study 2313 evg post young bu…
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 08 May 1940)
· Papers Past,
…d is the guest of mrs alex duncan mrs gollan newton remuera is staying with mrs a m adams waterloo road lower hutt mrs f h read wanganui mrs t v morrin and miss p morrin have returned home after spend…
- N.Z. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 07 August 1940)
· Papers Past,
…perry able seaman rnvr nz wounded in hm trawler drummer his mother is mrs mary perry 276 waterloo road lower hutt wellington these are the first war casualties to be sustained by the new zealand roya…
- LIST OF PATIENTS (Evening Post, 02 October 1941)
· Papers Past,
…llan s j pte dunedin rittfpte a j lcpl christchurch rifran j a pte mrs e gilligan 268 gil waterloo road lower hutt m glengarry t f pte taihape riue w a pte christchurch tsfy c w pte new plymouth griff…
- MEN WHO ARE NOW 21 (Evening Post, 03 December 1941)
· Papers Past,
…2nd aa battery gboves p vv 187 sutherland rd c-uthriev3 rk-26 queens rd lr hutt guy 8 276 waterloo rd lr hutt halford h r 55 slajoribanks st hall c c 361 adelaide rd hall t r h 575 high st lr hutt han…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 31 December 1941)
· Papers Past,
…mrs m flibbert 784 manukau road epsom auckland w ihigson harold tbdr miss e higson i 140 waterloo road lower hutt sister horn james gordon pte mrs j horn 15a grove street st kilda dunedin w horne tho…
- TERRITORIAL SERVICE CALL-UP (Evening Post, 21 January 1942)
· Papers Past,
…e f 37 webb st doig james x c uss co ltd doig ronald d 24 hathaway aye dolan william 198 waterloo rd lh doldex george j 1 rua st donald arthur r 146 hanson st donaldson james 28 downer st lh doxx rob…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The businesses on it, 1
Premises whose address in the directory is Waterloo Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Waterloo Road in 10 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: State Highway 1S & Waterloo Road, 51 crashes pinned to the pairing, 1 killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Sockburn, Christchurch, New Zealand.
5 reports at 4 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (2), water & drains (1), vehicles & parking (1).
2021, the record covers 5 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
State Highway 1S and Waterloo Road, 51 police-reported crashes at the pairing, 1 of them fatal.
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