Corson Avenue
48 reports at 26 addresses in Beckenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 46 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 Corson Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Beckenham.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- 89 Corson Avenue, 7 reports
- 71 Corson Avenue, 4 reports
- 88 Corson Avenue, 3 reports
- 84 Corson Avenue, 3 reports
- 67 Corson Avenue, 3 reports
- 16 Corson Avenue, 3 reports
- 75 Corson Avenue, 2 reports
- 73 Corson Avenue, 2 reports
- 49 Corson Avenue, 2 reports
- 18 Corson Avenue, 2 reports
- 14 Corson Avenue, 2 reports
- 87 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 85 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 83 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 82 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 76 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 69 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 66 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 46 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 45 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 42 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 3 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 28A Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 28 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 27 Corson Avenue, 1 report
- 2 Corson Avenue, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 22 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 12 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 6 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 3 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 2 reports
- Everything else, 1 report
- Trees & parks, 1 report
- Animals & pests, 1 report
Year by year
- 2016, 2 reports
- 2017, 1 report
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 4 reports
- 2020, 1 report
- 2021, 4 reports
- 2022, 5 reports
- 2023, 15 reports
- 2024, 3 reports
- 2025, 7 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- CITY COUNCIL. (Star, 10 September 1907)
· Papers Past,
…dication of chanter street st albans fisher street beckenham norwood avenue martin avenue corson avenue and malcolm avenue fn-herton the report was adopted miscellaneous the kaiapoi woolhn manufacturi…
- LAW CLERK CHARGED (Evening Post, 21 April 1926)
· Papers Past,
…sed and mr w j hunter watched the interests of mrs dixon mabel florence dixon residing in corson avenue beckenham said that on 20th january last she drew 205 from her post office savings bank account…
- N.Z.E.F. ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 05 November 1942)
· Papers Past,
…mrs j h alcgregor taupo road tauinarunui fw aicintyre krncst j sjtt airs ai k c mclntyre corson avenue chrlstohurch w mckay donald g pte mr g mckay 1210 ciiroiino road hastings jr mckeb brie ai pte a…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 06 May 1944)
· Papers Past,
…is neville r pte mrs m lewis 42j manakau road epsom w lloyd ronald t gnr mrs e m lloyd 18 corson avenue beckenham m lockie selwyn a pte mrs g m lockle 72 fitzgerald avenue linwood w mcevvan john 0 pte…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 10 June 1944)
· Papers Past,
…ously reported missing believed prisoners of war atkinson lionel h pte mrs e e hampton s3 corson avenue beckenham sister campbell gordon 0 pte mrs d m campbell care j tims perla rd matamata w davis ch…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 06 October 1944)
· Papers Past,
…vr mrs c m mills rn 1i 1 newton road auckland c 2 m morse deryck c tsgt mrs g e morse 4 9 corson avenue beckenham m neal alan r pte mrs j l neal 58 somme parade wanganui w nyberg george s pte mr a nyb…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 03 January 1945)
· Papers Past,
…pte mrs n a lindsay 6 ferguson street musselburgh w lloyd ronald t lcpl mrs e m lloyd 18 corson avenue beckenham m low john d a pte mrs n i low 93 ness street invercargill w mcauley james j pte mrs l…
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.
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
- Pavement - Damaged, 87 Corson Ave,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 73 Corson Ave,
- Water Leak, 18 Corson Avenue,
- Water Leak, 16 Corson Avenue,
- Noise - Animal, 27 Corson Avenue,
- Dumped Rubbish, 89 Corson Ave,
- Water Leak, 84 Corson Ave,
- Damaged Street Sign, 89 Corson Avenue,
- Water Leak, 14 Corson Avenue,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 16 Corson Avenue,
- Pavement - General, 75 Corson Avenue,
- Pavement - Damaged, 71 Corson Avenue,
- Pavement - Damaged, 71 Corson Avenue,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 89 Corson Avenue,
- Graffiti somewhere else, 73 Corson Avenue,
Questions, answered briefly
In Beckenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.
48 reports at 26 addresses, most often water & drains (22), roads & footpaths (12), graffiti & vandalism (6).
2016, the record covers 46 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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