Pembroke Street
23 reports at 16 addresses in Avondale, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 21 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 Pembroke Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Avondale.
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
- 70 Pembroke Street, 3 reports
- 33 Pembroke Street, 3 reports
- 69 Pembroke Street, 2 reports
- 55 Pembroke Street, 2 reports
- 44E Pembroke Street, 2 reports
- 9 Pembroke Street, 1 report
- 74 Pembroke Street, 1 report
- 68 Pembroke Street, 1 report
- 63 Pembroke Street, 1 report
- 61 Pembroke Street, 1 report
- 54 Pembroke Street, 1 report
- 53 Pembroke Street, 1 report
- 4 Pembroke Street, 1 report
- 3 Pembroke Street, 1 report
- 24 Pembroke Street, 1 report
- 16 Pembroke Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 15 reports
- Trees & parks, 4 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Everything else, 1 report
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
- Animals & pests, 1 report
Year by year
- 2016, 5 reports
- 2017, 1 report
- 2018, 2 reports
- 2019, 1 report
- 2020, 2 reports
- 2021, 2 reports
- 2023, 2 reports
- 2024, 5 reports
- 2025, 2 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 28 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- ART UNION DRAW (Evening Post, 12 April 1938)
· Papers Past,
…mrs l j jamieson paeroa m 315 lw 90 symonds street auckland 169311 topsy mrs c a boss 107 pembroke street hamilton 94507 birthday courtenay place wellington 68089 hard up backblock ongarue 70407 your…
- TODAY'S LIST (Evening Post, 18 June 1941)
· Papers Past,
…pte mr j h sykes 23 clarence road riccarton f taylor william john pte mrsr e m taylor 31 pembroke street hamilton m thompson jeffrey hawthorne pte mr j w thompson 36 vigor brown street napier f thomp…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 July 1941)
· Papers Past,
…is pte mrs l j markham 4 ure street oamaru m martin charles henry pte mrs u g p martin 27 pembroke street hamilton w martin herbert pardue spr mrs c m martin care mrs g martin companys bay dunedin m m…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 04 November 1941)
· Papers Past,
…e mr a h taylor 22 mahoe avenue palmerston north fj taylor wuliam j pte mrs e m taylor 31 pembroke street hamilton mj tipene horomona pte mrs m henare motatu whangarei not stated tyrrell trevor pte mr…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 29 December 1941)
· Papers Past,
…rt percival pte mrs e gray putariiru m grayndler edward joseph pte mrs e i m grayndler 29 pembroke street carterton m i greenland albert edward pte mrs p b greenland care mrs a j windley neonprotaha w…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 06 February 1942)
· Papers Past,
…r a goldfinch 2 chilka street wellington grayndler edward joseph pte mrs e m grayndler 20 pembroke street carterton m hodge francis braithwaite pte mr f n hodge 8 clyde street dunedin f hughes archiba…
- KILLED IN ACTION. (Evening Post, 29 July 1942)
· Papers Past,
…l pte miss m jane paekakarlki s jensen lawrence d pte mrs m r jentsen care d gustofaon 38 pembroke street carterton w stanley-joblin john t spr sirs d stanley-joblin 178 mckenzie avenue woolstoa w jon…
- N.Z.E.F. ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 05 November 1942)
· Papers Past,
…m o alalonc 17 ardmore road hernc bay auckland w mansell charles e pte air j b mansell 30 pembroke street carterton b manss-bn francis g cpl airs 1 ai mansscn 134 hunter street tauranga m marx raymond…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 05 May 1943)
· Papers Past,
…l a scott 213 olllvler road christchurch f fankersley athol r sgmn mrs a m tankersley 34 pembroke street carterton w…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 28 October 1943)
· Papers Past,
…mrs j kllkelly 409 french street hastings in grayndler edward j pte mrs e m grayndlcr 29 pembroke street carfcerton m v gyde wilfred d pto mr f gyde windsor road inglewood f hand raymond l pte mrs j…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 15 April 1944)
· Papers Past,
…r fearn recce a pte mrs b fearn makarewa junction m goodall william j cpl mrs w a goodall pembroke street oamaru w hanson edwardpte mrs e e hanson 156 feverll street riccarton m white ivan m lcpl mr e…
- BRAVERY IN ITALY (Evening Post, 17 June 1944)
· Papers Past,
…in mr w mcpherson puramahoi takaka f isst thomas g sargent next of kin mrs e m sargent 30 pembroke street carterton w tsgt john w churton next of kin mrs v k churton care c ferguson jun whiteman valle…
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 open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Pembroke Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody 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.
- A CHRISTIAN APOLOGIST. (Auckland Star, 16 November 1891) · Auckland Star,
- LETTERS FROM THE LITTLE FOLK. (Otago Witness, 19 June 1907) · Otago Witness,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 19 July 1933) · Evening Post,
- NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 27 May 1941) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 04 December 1941) · Evening Post,
- N.Z.E.F. ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 30 July 1942) · Evening Post,
- N.Z.E.F. ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 31 July 1942) · Evening Post,
- LIST OF NEW ZEALANDERS (Evening Post, 06 November 1943) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 30 March 1944) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 18 April 1944) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 28 April 1945) · Evening Post,
- SAFE IN BRITAIN (Evening Post, 17 May 1945) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- General Request, 70 Pembroke St,
- Fallen Tree, 55 Pembroke Street,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 24 Pembroke Street,
- Litter, 44E Pembroke Street,
- Litter, 53 Pembroke Street,
- Litter, 44E Pembroke Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 69 Pembroke Street,
- Noise - Animal, 3 Pembroke Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 69 Pembroke Street,
- Damaged Street Sign, 4 Pembroke Street,
- Rubbish/Recycling, 70 Pembroke Street,
- Rubbish/Recycling, 70 Pembroke Street,
- Parks, 74 Pembroke Street,
- Wastewater/Stormwater, 55 Pembroke Street,
- Rubbish/Recycling, 33 Pembroke Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Avondale, Christchurch, New Zealand.
23 reports at 16 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (15), trees & parks (4), water & drains (1).
2016, the record covers 21 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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