Shakespeare Road

227 reports at 54 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 160 separate days somebody filed something about it.

227 reports 54 addresses160 days reported onfrom the air, then 80 documents carry the name 5 businessesthe 410th 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 Shakespeare Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Waltham.

From the air, then

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

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

Shakespeare 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, 135 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 39 reports
Water & drains, 20 reports
Roads & footpaths, 15 reports
Vehicles & parking, 10 reports
Trees & parks, 6 reports
Everything else, 2 reports

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2016, 7 reports
2017, 11 reports
2018, 4 reports
2019, 11 reports
2020, 2 reports
2021, 11 reports
2022, 11 reports
2023, 26 reports
2024, 28 reports
2025, 66 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 80 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Hawke's Bay Herald, 13 October 1881) · Papers Past, 13 Oct 1881
…te auctioneer for lease fl ihe paddock adjoining the residence of jl mr aloxander kennedy shakespeare road for 6 or 12 months apply to edward lyndon 319 land and estate agent money 1 f fff t0 invest o…
THE GENERAL ELECTION. (Daily Telegraph, 23 July 1884) · Papers Past, 23 Jul 1884
…and the voters got exhausted shortly after 7in the evening the croavd began to gather in shakespeare road and much good humored chaff avas indulged inbut there vras little or no roughness about 930 t…
Untitled (Daily Telegraph, 17 October 1891) · Papers Past, 17 Oct 1891
…y mr t a coghlan the government statistician an accident of a slight character happened m shakespeare road this morning when a horse drawing a spring trap in charge of mrs willan fell whilst coming do…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 8 (Daily Telegraph, 16 December 1899) · Papers Past, 16 Dec 1899
…removed to more commodious and central premises nearly opposite tlie general post office shakespeare road a complete stock on hand of paperhangings mixed paint enames varnishes brushes etc and all go…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 10 August 1901) · Papers Past, 10 Aug 1901
…required price moderate apply knight and checkley 131 colombo street chrigtchurch forsle shakespeare road sunny facing a nice house of 6 rooms etc bath room scullery pantry and outhouse fowl run iacr…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 17 August 1901) · Papers Past, 17 Aug 1901
…equired price moderate apply knight and checkley 131 colombo street chri-tchurch for sale shakespeare road sunny facing a nice house of 6 rooms etc bath room scullery pantry and outhouse fowl run j-ac…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 31 August 1901) · Papers Past, 31 Aug 1901
…rge rection only 275 on easy terms eachamp acd co auotioneera christchurch fo us for sale shakespeare road bunnyfacing a nice house of 6 rooms etc bath room scullery pantry and outhouse fowl run i-acr…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 07 September 1901) · Papers Past, 7 Sept 1901
…ection only 275 on easy terms i��eauohamp and co auctioneers christchurch fo 115 for sale shakespeare road sunny facing a nice house of 6 rooms etc bath room scullery pantry and outhouse fowl run i-ac…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 21 September 1901) · Papers Past, 21 Sept 1901
…operties to choose from particulars free ayers and parkerson 191 hereford street for sale shakespeare road sunny facing a nice house of 6 rooms etc bath room scullery pantry and outhouse fowl run j-ac…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 05 October 1901) · Papers Past, 5 Oct 1901
…ater sup ply price 265 apply knight n-d check ley 131 colombo stree christchurch for sale shakespeare road sunny facing a nice house of 6 rooms etc bath room scullery pantry and outhouse fowl run j-ac…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 21 July 1902) · Papers Past, 21 Jul 1902
…road splendid eectio-n of j-acre well planted and 3-roorned lean-to in good order 135 off shakespeare road nico house 5 rooms scullery washhouso etc i-acre only 210 near wajtlwim school nearly nw hous…
Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 02 August 1902) · Papers Past, 2 Aug 1902
…ad splendid section of j-acre well j planted and 3 roomed lean-to in good order j 135 off shakespeare road nice house 5 rooms soullery waahhouse etc j-acre only 210 near waltham school nearly new ihou…

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

The businesses on it, 5

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Shakespeare Road in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.