Memorial Avenue
163 reports at 67 addresses in Ilam, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 132 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 Memorial Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Ilam.
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 addresses on it
- 102 Memorial Avenue, 15 reports
- 103 Memorial Avenue, 9 reports
- 65 Memorial Avenue, 8 reports
- 91A Memorial Avenue, 7 reports
- 74A Memorial Avenue, 6 reports
- 35 Memorial Avenue, 6 reports
- 17 Memorial Avenue, 6 reports
- 79A Memorial Avenue, 5 reports
- 70 Memorial Avenue, 5 reports
- 67 Memorial Avenue, 5 reports
- 94 Memorial Avenue, 3 reports
- 87 Memorial Avenue, 3 reports
- 73 Memorial Avenue, 3 reports
- 69 Memorial Avenue, 3 reports
- 68A Memorial Avenue, 3 reports
- 40A Memorial Avenue, 3 reports
- 23 Memorial Avenue, 3 reports
- 18 Memorial Avenue, 3 reports
- 16 Memorial Avenue, 3 reports
- 104 Memorial Avenue, 3 reports
- 1 Memorial Avenue, 3 reports
- 98 Memorial Avenue, 2 reports
- 85 Memorial Avenue, 2 reports
- 84 Memorial Avenue, 2 reports
- 7B Memorial Avenue, 2 reports
- 79B Memorial Avenue, 2 reports
- 72 Memorial Avenue, 2 reports
- 71A Memorial Avenue, 2 reports
- 66 Memorial Avenue, 2 reports
- 59 Memorial Avenue, 2 reports
- 55 Memorial Avenue, 2 reports
- 47 Memorial Avenue, 2 reports
- 105 Memorial Avenue, 2 reports
- 97 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 96 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 95 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 93 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 92 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 91 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 90 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 81 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 80A Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 80 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 8 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 78A Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 77 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 75 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 60 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 53 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 51A Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 51 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 46 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 45E Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 45 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 44 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 43 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 42 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 41B Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 41 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 37 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
and the other 7 the record names
- 34-26 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 26 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 19/23 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 19-23 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 19 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 12A Memorial Avenue, 1 report
- 100 Memorial Avenue, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 55 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 36 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 22 reports
- Water & drains, 20 reports
- Trees & parks, 14 reports
- Everything else, 8 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 7 reports
- Noise, 1 report
Year by year
- 2016, 1 report
- 2017, 1 report
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 2 reports
- 2020, 7 reports
- 2021, 9 reports
- 2022, 13 reports
- 2023, 45 reports
- 2024, 23 reports
- 2025, 39 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,
…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 →
Schools on it
The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.
- Tuia Burnside Primary School, Contributing · decile 4 · EQI 437 · roll 326
The businesses on it, 3
Premises whose address in the directory is Memorial Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Memorial Avenue in 49 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 8 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Memorial Avenue & State Highway 1S, 149 crashes pinned to the pairing.
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,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Pothole, 51A Memorial Ave,
- Damaged Road, 71A Memorial Ave,
- Pothole, 18 Memorial Ave,
- Pothole, 73 Memorial Ave,
- Dumped Rubbish, 79A Memorial Avenue,
- Poles and Signage - General, 103 Memorial Avenue,
- Damaged Road, 18 Memorial Avenue,
- Water Leak, 92 Memorial Avenue,
- Litter, 87 Memorial Ave,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 74A Memorial Ave,
- Pothole, 100 Memorial Avenue,
- Pothole, 103 Memorial Ave,
- Poles and Signage - General, 23 Memorial Ave,
- Pothole, 102 Memorial Ave,
- Abandoned Vehicle, 19-23 Memorial Avenue,
Questions, answered briefly
In Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand.
163 reports at 67 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (55), roads & footpaths (36), rubbish & dumping (22).
2016, the record covers 132 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Memorial Avenue and State Highway 1S, 149 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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