Memorial Avenue
No council reports on record for Memorial Avenue, Fendalton, but the street isn’t unknown to the archive: 1 place on the heritage register carries the name.
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. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Fendalton.
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 →
On the register
- Dwelling and Setting, Colwell, 46 Memorial Avenue
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,
…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,
…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,
- Memorial Avenue, Burnside, Christchurch City · TAPUHI,
- Memorial Avenue, Christchurch City · TAPUHI,
- Memorial Avenue, Christchurch City · TAPUHI,
- Memorial Avenue, Christchurch City · TAPUHI,
- Memorial Avenue, Christchurch City · TAPUHI,
- Road Safety
· National Publicity Studios black and white file prints,
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,
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,
Aerial view of Fendalton Road from Memorial Avenue. 1983 Christchurch Star photographs…
- Calycanthus occidentalis Hook. & Arn.
· Te Papa Collections Online,
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 →
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,
Questions, answered briefly
In Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
No council reports, but 1 heritage-register place carry the name.
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