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Gordon Avenue

38 reports at 19 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 35 separate days somebody filed something about it.

38 reports19 addresses35 days reported onfrom the air, then17 documents carry the namethe 1688th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

31 Gordon Avenue, 5 reports34 Gordon Avenue, 4 reports42 Gordon Avenue, 3 reports39 Gordon Avenue, 3 reports24 Gordon Avenue, 3 reports23 Gordon Avenue, 3 reports22 Gordon Avenue, 3 reports40 Gordon Avenue, 2 reports30 Gordon Avenue, 2 reports8-10 Gordon Avenue, 1 report48 Gordon Avenue, 1 report35-39 Gordon Avenue, 1 report3 Gordon Avenue, 1 report23B Gordon Avenue, 1 report22A Gordon Avenue, 1 report21 Gordon Avenue, 1 report19 Gordon Avenue, 1 report18 Gordon Avenue, 1 report14 Gordon Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Gordon Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Gordon Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Gordon 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. 17 on the shelf; the 12 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

Overgrown Vegetation, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoSewer - Leak / Blockage, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoSediment - Construction, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Gordon Avenue?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Gordon Avenue?

38 reports at 19 addresses, most often water & drains (14), roads & footpaths (12), graffiti & vandalism (6).

When was Gordon Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 35 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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