Avonside Drive
4 council reports at 2 addresses on Avonside Drive, Dallington, on record since August 2025.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Avonside Drive, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Dallington.
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 numbered spots
- 534–542 Avonside Drive, 2 reports
- 506–548 Avonside Drive, 2 reports
What got reported
- Roads & footpaths, 2 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 2 reports
Year by year
- 2025, 2 reports
2026 was still in progress when this page was drawn and is left off.
Documents that name it
Records on the shelf that name Avonside Drive, 44 in total; the 12 earliest:
- Avonside view · Canterbury Stories ·
Houses along Avonside Drive and the Avon River in Christchurch. William Travers photograph album…
- Overhead wires and street lamp · Canterbury Stories ·
Overhead electrical wires and street lamp outside of the house at 150 Avonside Drive. Holy Trinity Anglican Church is visible in the background. MED Historical Photographs…
- Corner of Fitzgerald Avenue and Avonside Drive · Canterbury Stories ·
Power poles on the corner of Fitzgerald Avenue and Avonside Drive. 230 Fitzgerald Avenue is visible. MED Historical Photographs…
- THEFT FROM GARDEN (Evening Post, 20 September 1933) · Papers Past ·
…in the magistrate court today the chief-detective said that in 1931 e wiltshire garden at avonside drive was raided and a quantity of choice hyacinth bulbs stolen at the time suspicion rested on short…
- THOMPSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Ellesmere Guardian, 09 October 1934) · Papers Past ·
…ting relatives in the district has returned to the north island mr and mrs t a edwards of avonside drive christchurch accompanied by mrs edwards mother mrs j storrie-leitch new plymouth were visitors…
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 08 July 1935) · Papers Past ·
…bourne and sydney mr and mrs r c stewart late of wellington have taken up residence at 16 avonside drive christchurch mrs l m johnson wellington is visiting auckland mrs a a holman mdow of the hon w a…
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 31 October 1935) · Papers Past ·
…ristchurch mrs james pow and miss amy kane wellington will be the guests of mrs c c davis avonside drive christchurch for the victoria league conference next week to which they will be delegates sir g…
- MANY AREAS FLOODED (Evening Post, 21 February 1936) · Papers Past ·
…tormwater drainage was inadequate to cope with the unprecedented run-off roads were awash avonside drive was covered by two feet of water for several chains and residents were unable to leave their ho…
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 09 November 1936) · Papers Past ·
…the rangatira last night where they will spend a holiday with their uncle mr t n horsley avonside drive linwood mrs w l forde wellington is staying at herne bay mrs r v hume featherston miss k granda…
- SERIOUS INJURIES (Evening Post, 03 January 1938) · Papers Past ·
…january two eyejigts were seriously injured on new year day maurice lfewis aged 16 of 596 avonside drive ran into a moter-earat the corner of clarence and riccartqri roads early on saturday afternoon…
- Aerial View of Dallington in the 1940s · Canterbury Stories ·
1940s view of the Avonside Drive area. Torlesse Street newly built; Porrit Park top left (in loop of river) with Wainoni Road ru…
- NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 27 May 1941) · Papers Past ·
…pr mr w sextone hotel auckland staff auckland f seymour patrick c lsgt mr c w seymour 253 avonside drive chrlstchurch shugar keith c lsgt mr a m shugar hill road alanurewa f slncock clarence g gnr mrs…
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.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Avonside Drive in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
Latest on record
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure at 534–542 Avonside Dr, 22 Aug 2026
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure at 534–542 Avonside Dr, 22 Aug 2026
- Poles and Signage - General at 506–548 Avonside Dr, 7 Oct 2025
- Pavement - Damaged at 506–548 Avonside Dr, 15 Aug 2025
Questions, answered briefly
In Dallington, Christchurch, New Zealand.
4 reports at 2 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (2), graffiti & vandalism (2).
2025, the record covers 3 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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