60 Ruskin Street

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 green nearby

• Ruskin Reserve, 95 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
• Baxters Drain, 140 m to the edge
• Antigua Reserve, 199 m to the edge
• Addington Cemetery, 278 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
• Braddon Reserve, 353 m to the edge

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.

On the doorstep

• Flyrite Dart Club, 323 m away · Clubs
• Everybody's Butchery, 344 m away · Butchers
• Christchurch Electrical, 360 m away · Electricians
• Mainland Resene ColorShop, 370 m away · Paint

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Brougham St near Barrie St, 181 m away · route 120
• Brougham St near James K Baxter Pl, 201 m away · route 120

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Addington, 151 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Addington, 349 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Addington, 399 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

The remembered names nearby

• The Passionflowers, Reproduced Here From the Addington, 106 m away · The passionflowers, reproduced here from the Addington Cemetery, form part of the Literary · 2008
• John Ruskin (1819–1900), Was the Pre-Eminent Critic, 106 m away · John Ruskin (1819–1900), was the pre-eminent critic of Victorian art and society. His phil · 2008
• Ruskin Reserve plaque, 106 m away · (Decorative passionflower carving – no text) · 2008

Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.

Renting nearby

new bonds in Addington ran about $502 a week, $48 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.

What gets reported here

• Dumped Rubbish, 5
• Rubbish/Recycling, 1
• Roading/Streets, 1
• Abandoned Vehicle, 1

Photographed here 3 on record

more photographs
on the Addington wall →

What’s on record

• Abandoned Vehicle, 13 Aug 2025 This car doesn't seem to belong to any neighbour's And back tire is now flat, weeds growing under it...
• Dumped Rubbish, 9 Nov 2024 More dumped rubbish outside 65 Ruskin Street. I’ve got video of the residents dumping their couches and chairs there.
• Dumped Rubbish, 4 Oct 2024 I have no idea what is in the bags
• Dumped Rubbish, 5 Aug 2023
• Dumped Rubbish, 28 Jul 2023
• Dumped Rubbish, 24 Feb 2023
• Rubbish/Recycling, 24 Aug 2021 There is a shopping trolley full of rubbish in the walkway between Ruskin St and Burke st Addington.
• Roading/Streets, 10 Jan 2017 Noxious nettle and thistles in council plot outside house. This is where we park and access our vehicle with our kids...could it be grassed?

Elsewhere on Ruskin Street

• 41 Ruskin Street, 24 reports
• 44 Ruskin Street, 15 reports
• 71 Ruskin Street, 9 reports
• 69 Ruskin Street, 9 reports
• 55 Ruskin Street, 8 reports
• 21 Ruskin Street, 7 reports
• 18 Ruskin Street, 7 reports
• 61 Ruskin Street, 6 reports

The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Ruskin Street in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

The civic layer

This ground votes in Spreydon ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.