Freyberg Avenue
24 reports at 7 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 23 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 Freyberg Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Riccarton.
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
- 4 Freyberg Avenue, 9 reports
- 2A Freyberg Avenue, 5 reports
- 6 Freyberg Avenue, 3 reports
- 2C Freyberg Avenue, 3 reports
- 11 Freyberg Avenue, 2 reports
- 8 Freyberg Avenue, 1 report
- 1 Freyberg Avenue, 1 report
What got reported
- Roads & footpaths, 10 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 9 reports
- Water & drains, 2 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 2 reports
- Trees & parks, 1 report
Year by year
- 2015, 1 report
- 2016, 2 reports
- 2017, 1 report
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 9 reports
- 2020, 3 reports
- 2023, 2 reports
- 2024, 2 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 01 May 1945)
· Papers Past,
…ck j gnr mrs a j green 111 charlotte crescent hastings w murphy john f tpr mrs f a murphy freyberg avenue sawyers bay w pitoni thomas spr mrs e pitonl te kopura m saxon noel f pte mr f c saxon north r…
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; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Freyberg Avenue in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
- WELLINGTON RECRUITING DISTRICT (No. 5) (Evening Post, 06 June 1917) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 July 1941) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 January 1942) · Evening Post,
- LIST OF NEW ZEALANDERS (Evening Post, 06 November 1943) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 03 December 1943) · Evening Post,
- SECOND N.Z.E.F. (Evening Post, 05 July 1945) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Pothole, 8 Freyberg Ave,
- Road Signage, 2A Freyberg Avenue,
- Dumped Rubbish, 11 Freyberg Ave,
- Graffiti somewhere else, 2A Freyberg Avenue,
- Dumped Rubbish, 11 Freyberg Avenue,
- Graffiti, 2A Freyberg Avenue,
- Graffiti, 2A Freyberg Avenue,
- Graffiti, 2A Freyberg Avenue,
- Graffiti, 6 Freyberg Avenue,
- Roading/Streets, 4 Freyberg Avenue,
- Flooding, 2C Freyberg Avenue,
- Graffiti, 1 Freyberg Ave,
- Roading/Streets, 2C Freyberg Ave,
- Graffiti, 4 Freyberg Ave,
- Roading/Streets, 6 Freyberg Ave,
Questions, answered briefly
In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
24 reports at 7 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (10), graffiti & vandalism (9), water & drains (2).
2015, the record covers 23 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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