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Edward Stafford Avenue

46 reports at 19 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 45 separate days somebody filed something about it.

46 reports19 addresses45 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1396th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

33 Edward Stafford Avenue, 7 reports28 Edward Stafford Avenue, 6 reports10 Edward Stafford Avenue, 6 reports3 Edward Stafford Avenue, 4 reports7 Edward Stafford Avenue, 3 reports6 Edward Stafford Avenue, 3 reports46 Edward Stafford Avenue, 2 reports30 Edward Stafford Avenue, 2 reports16 Edward Stafford Avenue, 2 reports12 Edward Stafford Avenue, 2 reports44 Edward Stafford Avenue, 1 report42 Edward Stafford Avenue, 1 report38 Edward Stafford Avenue, 1 report34-36 Edward Stafford Avenue, 1 report27 Edward Stafford Avenue, 1 report26 Edward Stafford Avenue, 1 report25–27 Edward Stafford Avenue, 1 report23 Edward Stafford Avenue, 1 report19 Edward Stafford Avenue, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Edward Stafford Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Halswell.

From the air, then

Edward Stafford Avenue from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Edward Stafford Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Edward Stafford Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Edward Stafford Avenue from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

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

The named ground

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

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Edward Stafford Avenue?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Edward Stafford Avenue?

46 reports at 19 addresses, most often water & drains (17), trees & parks (15), rubbish & dumping (4).

When was Edward Stafford Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 45 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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