Bracken Street
35 reports at 17 addresses in Avonside, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 31 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 Bracken Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Avonside.
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
- 4 Bracken Street, 16 reports
- 1 Bracken Street, 3 reports
- 16 Bracken Street, 2 reports
- 9 Bracken Street, 1 report
- 8 Bracken Street, 1 report
- 7A Bracken Street, 1 report
- 7 Bracken Street, 1 report
- 37 Bracken Street, 1 report
- 29 Bracken Street, 1 report
- 24A Bracken Street, 1 report
- 22 Bracken Street, 1 report
- 21 Bracken Street, 1 report
- 18 Bracken Street, 1 report
- 17 Bracken Street, 1 report
- 15 Bracken Street, 1 report
- 14 Bracken Street, 1 report
- 12 Bracken Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 20 reports
- Trees & parks, 8 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 4 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 3 reports
Year by year
- 2017, 5 reports
- 2018, 4 reports
- 2019, 1 report
- 2020, 10 reports
- 2023, 2 reports
- 2024, 6 reports
- 2025, 6 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 8 on the shelf; the 7 earliest:
- TODAY'S LIST (Evening Post, 29 May 1941)
· Papers Past,
…w s bond albert pto air a bond millers road danncvlrko f bracken richard henry pte airs r bracken st douglas street timaru m bready albert george pte airs i hunt 2 esses street epping nsw australia fr…
- TERRITORIAL SERVICE CALL-UP (Evening Post, 21 January 1942)
· Papers Past,
…kl jennings frederick h 23 cornford st jennings raymond h 2 hildreth st jensen edwin d 15 bracken st petone jensen gerard d g 93 seatoun heights rd jeromson magnus a 40 breaker bay rd jervis john h 71…
- INVALIDED HOME (Evening Post, 06 August 1942)
· Papers Past,
…harder w e pte mr r e harder sergeant hill westport f hartley m d gnr mrs vv d hartley 47 bracken street now plymouth m hastings a r spr mrs m bali 24 clare street oamaru s ilaydon a a c pte mrs m hay…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 05 February 1943)
· Papers Past,
…j bdr mrs e s toomer 8 footscray avenue wellington m vincent malcolm spr mr a vincent 32 bracken street christchurch f williams joseph g bdr mrs j l williams 28 worksop road masterton m withers raymo…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 27 April 1944)
· Papers Past,
…c mr p w craig 4 gear street petone f drummond flight sergeant kenneth mr l c drummond 23 bracken street petone f hadfield flight sergeant graham s sir a hadfleld 5 waipa street birkenhesd auckland f…
- Marriage Celebrants for 2013 Notice No. 49
· New Zealand Gazette,
…aine Joyce, 37 Waterside Crescent, Gulf Harbour, Whangaparaoa.Chapman, Lorelle Matine, 5A Bracken Street, Ohakune.Clough, Judith Anne, 354 Crane Road, Kamo, Whangarei.Cochrane, Ruth Elaine, 9 Woodlau…
- List of Independent Marriage and Civil Union Celebrants
· New Zealand Gazette,
…dCU M Chapman, Donna Marie, 6 Stafford Drive, Mapua, Nelson M Chapman, Lorelle Matine, 5A Bracken Street, OhakuneCU M Chapman, Mary Anne, 24A Ihaka Street, Hokowhitu, Palmerston North M Chapman, Pamel…
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 Bracken Street in 1 crash 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.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Dumped Rubbish, 4 Bracken Street,
- Park - General Request, 24A Bracken Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 4 Bracken Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 7A Bracken Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 4 Bracken Street,
- Litter, 4 Bracken Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 4 Bracken Street,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 4 Bracken Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 4 Bracken Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 16 Bracken Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 12 Bracken Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 16 Bracken Street,
- Graffiti, 4 Bracken Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 1 Bracken Street,
- Pit and Equipment - General, 4 Bracken Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Avonside, Christchurch, New Zealand.
35 reports at 17 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (20), trees & parks (8), roads & footpaths (4).
2017, the record covers 31 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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