Waterloo Road
48 reports at 14 addresses in Templeton, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 35 separate days somebody filed something about it.
48 reports14 addresses35 days reported onfrom the air, then22 documents carry the namethe 1696th 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 Waterloo Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Templeton.
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
- 598 Waterloo Road, 11 reports
- 637 Waterloo Road, 10 reports
- 624–636 Waterloo Road, 5 reports
- 628 Waterloo Road, 4 reports
- 791 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
- 622 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
- 616–622 Waterloo Road, 3 reports
- 632 Waterloo Road, 2 reports
- 630B Waterloo Road, 2 reports
- 636 Waterloo Road, 1 report
- 634A Waterloo Road, 1 report
- 628A Waterloo Road, 1 report
- 620 Waterloo Road, 1 report
- 616 Waterloo Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Roads & footpaths, 24 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 9 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 5 reports
- Water & drains, 3 reports
- Trees & parks, 3 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 2 reports
- Everything else, 2 reports
Year by year
- 2018, 8 reports
- 2021, 1 report
- 2022, 4 reports
- 2023, 4 reports
- 2024, 11 reports
- 2025, 6 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 crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Waterloo Road in 14 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: State Highway 1S & Waterloo Road, 51 crashes pinned to the pairing, 1 killed.
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.
- Untitled (Auckland Star, 10 April 1876) · Auckland Star,
- NORTH OTAGO RACES. (Timaru Herald, 06 April 1877) · Timaru Herald,
- Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 (Timaru Herald, 01 January 1878) · Timaru Herald,
- TELEGRAPHIC. (Auckland Star, 06 February 1879) · Auckland Star,
- INTERPROVINCIAL. (Otago Witness, 10 January 1880) · Otago Witness,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 30 June 1883) · Star,
- MAGISTERIAL. (Star, 09 October 1884) · Star,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 18 February 1886) · Star,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 7 (Star, 19 February 1886) · Star,
- OUR CANTERBURY SPORTING LETTER. (Otago Witness, 22 April 1887) · Otago Witness,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 05 May 1891) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- A CROSSING TRAGEDY (Evening Post, 17 June 1930) · Evening Post,
- SPRINGS COUNTY (Ellesmere Guardian, 09 August 1935) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 21 March 1938) · Evening Post,
- HARRIERS (Evening Post, 08 May 1939) · Evening Post,
- LUCK FOR ALL" (Evening Post, 06 August 1941) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 20 September 1941) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 January 1942) · Evening Post,
- RESCUED NEW ZEALAND TROOPS (Evening Post, 19 May 1945) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 637 Waterloo Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 637 Waterloo Road,
- Pavement - General, 624–636 Waterloo Rd,
- Road Signage, 624–636 Waterloo Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 598 Waterloo Rd,
- Street Light Outage, 791 Waterloo Road,
- Poles and Signage - General, 616–622 Waterloo Rd,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 637 Waterloo Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 637 Waterloo Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 634A Waterloo Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 637 Waterloo Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 637 Waterloo Road,
- Damaged Street Sign, 616–622 Waterloo Rd,
- Road Signage, 624–636 Waterloo Rd,
- Pothole, 616–622 Waterloo Rd,
Questions, answered briefly
Where is Waterloo Road?
In Templeton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
What gets reported on Waterloo Road?
48 reports at 14 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (24), graffiti & vandalism (9), rubbish & dumping (5).
When was Waterloo Road first reported on?
2018, the record covers 35 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
What is the busiest corner on Waterloo Road?
State Highway 1S and Waterloo Road, 51 police-reported crashes at the pairing, 1 of them fatal.
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