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Bolton Avenue

42 reports at 15 addresses in Spreydon, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 39 separate days somebody filed something about it.

42 reports15 addresses39 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1580th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

43 Bolton Avenue, 6 reports33 Bolton Avenue, 6 reports3 Bolton Avenue, 4 reports25 Bolton Avenue, 4 reports50 Bolton Avenue, 3 reports41 Bolton Avenue, 3 reports39 Bolton Avenue, 3 reports12 Bolton Avenue, 3 reports37 Bolton Avenue, 2 reports29 Bolton Avenue, 2 reports13 Bolton Avenue, 2 reports19 Bolton Avenue, 1 report17D Bolton Avenue, 1 report17 Bolton Avenue, 1 report10 Bolton Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Bolton Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bolton Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bolton 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 crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Bolton Avenue in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

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 Bolton Avenue?

In Spreydon, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Bolton Avenue?

42 reports at 15 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (20), water & drains (10), roads & footpaths (7).

When was Bolton Avenue first reported on?

2018, the record covers 39 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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