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Memorial Avenue

479 reports at 187 addresses in Burnside, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 391 separate days somebody filed something about it.

479 reports 187 addresses391 days reported onfrom the air, then 31 documents carry the name 5 businessesthe 82nd 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 Memorial Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Burnside.

From the air, then

Memorial Avenue from the air, 1940-1944 — 1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Memorial Avenue from the air, 1970-1974 — 1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Memorial Avenue 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 127 the record names

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 165 reports
Trees & parks, 79 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 76 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 61 reports
Water & drains, 51 reports
Vehicles & parking, 34 reports
Everything else, 10 reports
Noise, 2 reports

Year by year

2015, 3 reports
2016, 3 reports
2017, 13 reports
2018, 21 reports
2019, 23 reports
2020, 21 reports
2021, 22 reports
2022, 39 reports
2023, 81 reports
2024, 106 reports
2025, 81 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 31 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 16 July 1942) · Papers Past, 16 Jul 1942
…s m w henderson old taupiri road ngaruawahla w higgs ivan sydney winton pte mrs b higgs 3 memorial avenue timaru m hussey john pte mrs s hussey mosgiel post ofiice m kenny alexander robert pte mrs r k…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 03 January 1944) · Papers Past, 3 Jan 1944
…bay of islands ra hendry roland pte mr r hendry clyde higgs samuel w j pte mrs b walker 5 memorial avenue timaru m hook stewart pte mr i hook wairoa f hope douglas j set mrs ei m hope chester street o…
Memorial Avenue, Burnside, Christchurch City · TAPUHI, 1 Jan 1959
Memorial Avenue, Burnside, Christchurch City · TAPUHI, 1 Jan 1959
Memorial Avenue, Christchurch City · TAPUHI, 1 Jan 1962
Memorial Avenue, Christchurch City · TAPUHI, 1 Jan 1962
Memorial Avenue, Christchurch City · TAPUHI, 1 Jan 1962
Memorial Avenue, Christchurch City · TAPUHI, 1 Jan 1962
Road Safety · National Publicity Studios black and white file prints, 1 Jan 1969
Burnside Primary School Patrol, Memorial Avenue, Christchurch March 1969, Canterbury National Publicity Studios black and white file prints;…
Road Safety · National Publicity Studios black and white file prints, 1 Jan 1969
Burnside Primary School Patrol, Memorial Avenue, Christchurch March 1969, Canterbury National Publicity Studios black and white file prints;…
Aerial view of Fendalton Road · Canterbury Stories, 27 Jun 1983
Aerial view of Fendalton Road from Memorial Avenue. 1983 Christchurch Star photographs…
Calycanthus occidentalis Hook. & Arn. · Te Papa Collections Online, 3 Mar 1993
Calycanthus occidentalis Hook. & Arn., collected 3 March 1993, Christchurch. Memorial Avenue., New Zealand. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP084703) Plants; Te Papa Collections Online; Matapihi…

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

The businesses on it, 5

Premises whose address in the directory is Memorial Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avice Hill Reserve shelter · 4 m away Avice Hill Reserve shelter · 15 m away Westburn Reserve shelter · 25 m away Avice Hill Reserve shelter · 32 m away Westburn Reserve boardwalk · 35 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Memorial Avenue in 161 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 people killed, 33 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Memorial Avenue & State Highway 1S, 149 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

Board puts brakes on plan to alter tree-lined WWII memorial avenue · The news · The Press, 15 Sept 2026

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photo

Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photo

Pavement - Damaged, a report photo

Hazard, vehicle, a report photo

Water Leak, a report photo

Hazard, vehicle, a report photo

Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photo

Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photo

Water Leak, a report photo

Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photo

Street Gutters / Storm Water, a report photo

Traffic Signals, a report photo

more photographs
on the Burnside wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Memorial Avenue?

In Burnside, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Memorial Avenue?

479 reports at 187 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (165), trees & parks (79), graffiti & vandalism (76).

When was Memorial Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 391 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Memorial Avenue?

Memorial Avenue and State Highway 1S, 149 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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