Avonside Drive

222 reports at 79 addresses in Avondale, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 171 separate days somebody filed something about it.

222 reports 79 addresses171 days reported onfrom the air, then 44 documents carry the namethe 366th 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 Avonside Drive, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Avondale.

From the air, then

Avonside Drive from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Avonside Drive from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Avonside Drive 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

and the other 19 the record names

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 74 reports
Trees & parks, 57 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 46 reports
Roads & footpaths, 23 reports
Animals & pests, 7 reports
Water & drains, 6 reports
Vehicles & parking, 5 reports
Everything else, 3 reports

Year by year

2015, 9 reports
2016, 10 reports
2017, 10 reports
2018, 15 reports
2019, 13 reports
2020, 13 reports
2021, 14 reports
2022, 23 reports
2023, 24 reports
2024, 27 reports
2025, 35 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 44 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Avonside view · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1864
Houses along Avonside Drive and the Avon River in Christchurch. William Travers photograph album…
Overhead wires and street lamp · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1931
Overhead electrical wires and street lamp outside of the house at 150 Avonside Drive. Holy Trinity Anglican Church is visible in the background. MED Historical Photographs…
Corner of Fitzgerald Avenue and Avonside Drive · Canterbury Stories, 1 Mar 1931
Power poles on the corner of Fitzgerald Avenue and Avonside Drive. 230 Fitzgerald Avenue is visible. MED Historical Photographs…
THEFT FROM GARDEN (Evening Post, 20 September 1933) · Papers Past, 20 Sept 1933
…in the magistrate court today the chief-detective said that in 1931 e wiltshire garden at avonside drive was raided and a quantity of choice hyacinth bulbs stolen at the time suspicion rested on short…
THOMPSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Ellesmere Guardian, 09 October 1934) · Papers Past, 9 Oct 1934
…ting relatives in the district has returned to the north island mr and mrs t a edwards of avonside drive christchurch accompanied by mrs edwards mother mrs j storrie-leitch new plymouth were visitors…
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 08 July 1935) · Papers Past, 8 Jul 1935
…bourne and sydney mr and mrs r c stewart late of wellington have taken up residence at 16 avonside drive christchurch mrs l m johnson wellington is visiting auckland mrs a a holman mdow of the hon w a…
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 31 October 1935) · Papers Past, 31 Oct 1935
…ristchurch mrs james pow and miss amy kane wellington will be the guests of mrs c c davis avonside drive christchurch for the victoria league conference next week to which they will be delegates sir g…
MANY AREAS FLOODED (Evening Post, 21 February 1936) · Papers Past, 21 Feb 1936
…tormwater drainage was inadequate to cope with the unprecedented run-off roads were awash avonside drive was covered by two feet of water for several chains and residents were unable to leave their ho…
PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 09 November 1936) · Papers Past, 9 Nov 1936
…the rangatira last night where they will spend a holiday with their uncle mr t n horsley avonside drive linwood mrs w l forde wellington is staying at herne bay mrs r v hume featherston miss k granda…
SERIOUS INJURIES (Evening Post, 03 January 1938) · Papers Past, 3 Jan 1938
…january two eyejigts were seriously injured on new year day maurice lfewis aged 16 of 596 avonside drive ran into a moter-earat the corner of clarence and riccartqri roads early on saturday afternoon…
Aerial View of Dallington in the 1940s · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1940
1940s view of the Avonside Drive area. Torlesse Street newly built; Porrit Park top left (in loop of river) with Wainoni Road ru…
NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 27 May 1941) · Papers Past, 27 May 1941
…pr mr w sextone hotel auckland staff auckland f seymour patrick c lsgt mr c w seymour 253 avonside drive chrlstchurch shugar keith c lsgt mr a m shugar hill road alanurewa f slncock clarence g gnr mrs…

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

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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 6 m away Horseshoe Lake lake · 104 m away Porritt Park footbridge · 11 m away Porritt Park footbridge · 15 m away Porritt Park jetty · 50 m away Horseshoe Lake Reserve shelter · 147 m away

The crash record on it

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

The corner the record returns to: Avonside Drive & Stanmore Road, 71 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.