Thorrington Road
19 reports at 4 addresses in Somerfield, the first in 2025, the latest 2026. 18 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 Thorrington Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Somerfield.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- 24B Thorrington Road, 9 reports
- 44 Thorrington Road, 5 reports
- 30B Thorrington Road, 4 reports
- 38A Thorrington Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 10 reports
- Trees & parks, 4 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 3 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 1 report
- Everything else, 1 report
Year by year
- 2025, 7 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- BURWOOD MYSTERY (NZ Truth, 04 August 1927)
· Papers Past,
…aid to the detectives the same night walter scarff the well-known ghristchurch carrier of thorrington road cashhiere and father of the dead girl identified the body in the morgue as that of his daught…
- BURWOOD MURDER (Evening Post, 30 August 1927)
· Papers Past,
…s latej employed by the white diamond cab company walter william scarff a carrier of no 1 thorrington road cashmere the father of the murdered girl stated that the accused had been employed by him as…
- N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 17 September 1941)
· Papers Past,
…wing casualty list was issued last night missing i lamb john melville spr air j c lamb 15 thorrington road cashmere christchurch f prisoners of war international red cross geneva reports the following…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 December 1941)
· Papers Past,
…r a jardine 6 fanlcross street kelburn wellington f lamb john melville spr mr j g lamb 15 thorrington road cashmere christchurch f btainer reginald arthur spr mrs b stainer 99 jervois road stamshaw po…
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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.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 38A Thorrington Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 24B Thorrington Road,
- Road Signage, 30B Thorrington Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 30B Thorrington Rd,
- Litter, 24B Thorrington Road,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 24B Thorrington Road,
- Fallen Tree, 44 Thorrington Rd,
- Litter, 30B Thorrington Rd,
- Fallen Tree, 44 Thorrington Rd,
- Litter, 24B Thorrington Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 24B Thorrington Road,
- Fallen Tree, 44 Thorrington Rd,
- Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 24B Thorrington Road,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 24B Thorrington Road,
- Litter, 24B Thorrington Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Somerfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.
19 reports at 4 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (10), trees & parks (4), graffiti & vandalism (3).
2025, the record covers 18 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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