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Shaw Avenue

29 reports at 7 addresses in North New Brighton, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 28 separate days somebody filed something about it.

29 reports7 addresses28 days reported onfrom the air, then11 documents carry the namethe 1944th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

10 Shaw Avenue, 11 reports14 Shaw Avenue, 8 reports16 Shaw Avenue, 4 reports16B Shaw Avenue, 2 reports16A Shaw Avenue, 2 reports9A Shaw Avenue, 1 report19 Shaw Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Shaw Avenue from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Shaw Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shaw Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shaw Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shaw 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. 11 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

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

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 Shaw Avenue?

In North New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Shaw Avenue?

29 reports at 7 addresses, most often water & drains (16), graffiti & vandalism (10), roads & footpaths (2).

When was Shaw Avenue first reported on?

2017, the record covers 28 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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