Fitzgerald Avenue
48 reports at 9 addresses in Phillipstown, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 45 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 Fitzgerald Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Phillipstown.
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
- 60 Fitzgerald Avenue, 22 reports
- 78 Fitzgerald Avenue, 10 reports
- 112 Fitzgerald Avenue, 9 reports
- 64 Fitzgerald Avenue, 2 reports
- 90 Fitzgerald Avenue, 1 report
- 84 Fitzgerald Avenue, 1 report
- 82 Fitzgerald Avenue, 1 report
- 108 Fitzgerald Avenue, 1 report
- 100 Fitzgerald Avenue, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 41 reports
- Water & drains, 2 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 2 reports
- Everything else, 2 reports
- Trees & parks, 1 report
Year by year
- 2019, 1 report
- 2020, 2 reports
- 2021, 3 reports
- 2022, 6 reports
- 2023, 10 reports
- 2024, 7 reports
- 2025, 16 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 259 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- Ward's Brewery
· Canterbury Stories,
Ward's Brewery buildings on the corner of the East Belt (later Fitzgerald Avenue) and Chester Street East. The Avon River can be seen on the left. William Travers photograp…
- Canterbury Rowing Club clubhouse
· Canterbury Stories,
…Club clubhouse on the Avon River at Oxford Terrace near the corner of Kilmore Street and Fitzgerald Avenue. 2013 Photo Hunt…
- Canterbury Rowing Club, the Heathcote River
· Canterbury Stories,
…ograph album. Top: Avon River looking towards the Canterbury Rowing Club on the Corner of Fitzgerald Avenue and Kilmore Street, and the Fitzgerald Avenue bridge. Handwritten annotation reads: “Footbri…
- Fitzgerald Avenue
· Kura Heritage Collections Online,
Showing Fitzgerald Avenue in the Christchurch Industrial Exhibition, 1900. Auckland Weekly News; Photographs / He Wha…
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 30 July 1904)
· Papers Past,
…s from bqwker and son land agents 248 colombo stieet nice handy villa r a f city close to fitzgerald avenue jw-tou ttnd the union boatsheds lm ice high section of land about one chaan front weh-buiit…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 05 December 1904)
· Papers Past,
…nd young 32 cathedral square 9715 ajstted for oash good second-hand go-cart pram apply 65 fitzgerald avenue 9711 anted general servant for welling ton country girl preferred 1 good wage��73 hereford s…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 19 January 1905)
· Papers Past,
…and agents mustlellimmediajle owner leaving fcr dunedin jqaa st asap street close to covu fitzgerald avenue j-acre land 33 feet fromages lew square house 4 rooms bathroom scullery match-lined and pape…
- TABLE TALK. (Otago Witness, 14 June 1905)
· Papers Past,
…off the large number of invited guests of the tramway board to inspect the power-house on fitzgerald avenue that done we all seated ourselves in the trams which in their dainty cream and pale green aa…
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 22 July 1905)
· Papers Past,
…tid7siiait boy apply butchet i jeweller 626 j anted to semtreliable bay mare j h cha-p 47 fitzgerald avenue 501 j wantedw t seli-3o steer boovtrunks just landed cheap little jim b1 j wanted errand boy…
- THE DISTRICT SCHEME. (Star, 11 August 1905)
· Papers Past,
…to shakespeare road along shakespeare road to falsgrave street along falsgrave street to fitzgerald avenue and the north avon road to fowke street along fowke street to avon road along avon road to t…
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 23 September 1905)
· Papers Past,
…boarders 36 montreal street sydenham 34 wanted sold contents six-roomed house urgent 183 fitzgerald avenue 2nd house from chester street 3448 anted our umbrellas defy the wind and the weather lethaby…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 16 October 1905)
· Papers Past,
…hawker this officer w anted strong lad to drive builder dray and useful appily f saw 217 fitzgerald avenue 4676 wanted addington two wotrkim men boarders share room and every con venience homely star…
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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.
Heard on the wire
Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.
- Police confirm Fitzgerald Avenue house fire is suspicious · The news · Chris Lynch Media,
- Fire crews at large house blaze off Fitzgerald Avenue · The news · Chris Lynch Media,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 78 Fitzgerald Avenue,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 64 Fitzgerald Avenue,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 60 Fitzgerald Avenue,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 112 Fitzgerald Avenue,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 90 Fitzgerald Ave,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 60 Fitzgerald Avenue,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 60 Fitzgerald Ave,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 112 Fitzgerald Avenue,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 60 Fitzgerald Ave,
- Damaged Road, 60 Fitzgerald Avenue,
- General Request, 78 Fitzgerald Avenue,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 108 Fitzgerald Avenue,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 78 Fitzgerald Ave,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 60 Fitzgerald Avenue,
- General Request, 60 Fitzgerald Avenue,
Questions, answered briefly
In Phillipstown, Christchurch, New Zealand.
48 reports at 9 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (41), water & drains (2), roads & footpaths (2).
2019, the record covers 45 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Fitzgerald Avenue and Moorhouse Avenue, 84 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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