Galbraith Avenue
43 reports at 19 addresses in Avonside, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 36 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 Galbraith Avenue, 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
- 33 Galbraith Avenue, 12 reports
- 30 Galbraith Avenue, 4 reports
- 4 Galbraith Avenue, 3 reports
- 36 Galbraith Avenue, 3 reports
- 25E Galbraith Avenue, 3 reports
- 27 Galbraith Avenue, 2 reports
- 21-27 Galbraith Avenue, 2 reports
- 17 Galbraith Avenue, 2 reports
- 11 Galbraith Avenue, 2 reports
- 32–40 Galbraith Avenue, 1 report
- 32 Galbraith Avenue, 1 report
- 25 Galbraith Avenue, 1 report
- 21-37 Galbraith Avenue, 1 report
- 21-33 Galbraith Avenue, 1 report
- 21 Galbraith Avenue, 1 report
- 20–40 Galbraith Avenue, 1 report
- 20-36 Galbraith Avenue, 1 report
- 20 Galbraith Avenue, 1 report
- 15 Galbraith Avenue, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 28 reports
- Everything else, 6 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 4 reports
- Trees & parks, 4 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 1 report
Year by year
- 2015, 2 reports
- 2016, 3 reports
- 2017, 11 reports
- 2020, 1 report
- 2021, 1 report
- 2022, 3 reports
- 2023, 5 reports
- 2024, 1 report
- 2025, 10 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 4 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 03 January 1945)
· Papers Past,
…rie leonard e pte mrs i currie 307 broadway miramar w dasler robert h pte mrs e dasler 18 galbraith avenue avonside christchurch m dawson cliffe h tssgt mrs j d dawson 5 stevens road lower hutt w daws…
- N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 24 April 1945)
· Papers Past,
…pte mrs a t cumberpatch 80 bordesley street linwood m dasler robert h pte mrs e dasler is galbraith avenue avonside christchurch m davis raymond 8 tpr mrs a davis 11 crieff street wellington w davys f…
- Sun Tai Salute
· Canterbury Stories,
Sun Tai Salute (52 Galbraith Avenue) on the corner with Suva Street. Cafe Cecil collection…
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 Galbraith Avenue 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
- Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 32–40 Galbraith Ave,
- Park - General Request, 30 Galbraith Avenue,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 30 Galbraith Ave,
- Litter, 21 Galbraith Avenue,
- Damaged Street Light, 36 Galbraith Avenue,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 30 Galbraith Ave,
- Pavement - General, 27 Galbraith Ave,
- General Request, 33 Galbraith Avenue,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 25E Galbraith Avenue,
- Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 33 Galbraith Avenue,
- General Request, 15 Galbraith Avenue,
- General Request, 25E Galbraith Avenue,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 25E Galbraith Avenue,
- General Request, 33 Galbraith Avenue,
- General Request, 20–40 Galbraith Ave,
Questions, answered briefly
In Avonside, Christchurch, New Zealand.
43 reports at 19 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (28), everything else (6), roads & footpaths (4).
2015, the record covers 36 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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