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Queens Avenue

6 reports at 6 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2023, the latest 2025. 5 separate days somebody filed something about it.

6 reports6 addresses5 days reported onfrom the air, then8 documents carry the namethe 4131st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

28 Queens Avenue, 1 report25 Queens Avenue, 1 report23 Queens Avenue, 1 report18 Queens Avenue, 1 report11 Queens Avenue, 1 report1 Queens Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Queens Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Queens Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Queens 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

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

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Queens Avenue?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Queens Avenue?

6 reports at 6 addresses, most often water & drains (2), roads & footpaths (2), everything else (2).

When was Queens Avenue first reported on?

2023, the record covers 5 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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