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Rockshop

Rockshop is a musical instrument shop at 51` Main North Road, Papanui, Christchurch, inside the Papanui/Northlands commercial centre.

Checked 16 Oct 2026

Rockshop: image from its own website
From its own website, its image · open the map →
Nearest bus stop
79 m
Musical Instrument in the suburb
2

Getting there

Bus stop, Northlands Platform C 79 m · Routes 1, 95, 107 · ECan bus stops
Bus stop, Northlands Platform D 142 m · Routes 27, 125, Oa · ECan bus stops
Bus stop, Main North near Loftus St 155 m · Routes 1, 27, 95, 125, Oc · ECan bus stops
Cycle lane Passes the door · in service · Council cycleway layer
The street, ` Main North Road Reports, crashes and the rest of the record along it Directions → Walking, cycling and driving routes, on Google Maps Street View → The kerb as Google photographed it: worth a look before a first visit

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Straight-line distances from the pin, not walking routes.

Nearby

Environment Canterbury’s Canterbury Maps Parks layer, refreshed 2026-10-10. Distances are straight-line from the business pin, not walking routes.

The nearest other musical instrument

All 2 musical instrument in Papanui → · Every one in the city →

Also in Papanui

Every kind of business in Papanui →

What the record holds

Every fact with the source that states it, Papanui (the suburb’s page) · record assembled 16 Oct 2026
FactWhat the source saysSource
Address51` Main North Road, Christchurch 8052OpenStreetMap
KindMusical InstrumentOpenStreetMap
Phone+64 3 539 0245OpenStreetMap
Websiterockshop.co.nzOpenStreetMap · its own site agrees

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The ground it stands on

Facts about the spot the pin marks, the land, not the business. A consent may belong to the building, the landlord or a neighbour
FactWhat the source saysSource
District Plan zoneTown centre zoneDistrict Plan
Commercial centrePapanui/Northlands, district centreDistrict Plan

What stood on this ground → · Documents that name it →

What stood on Main North Road

On the Main North Road from Christchurch last Friday
1925, On the Main North Road from Christchurch last Friday

From Kura Heritage Collections Online. This photograph names the street, not this business. The street page pairs it with a Street View pose verified outside Shields Pharmacy, 2019-06. The street’s then and now →

The reports nearby

769 council reports pinned within 250 m of the premises, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 657 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

The 769 reports on file

Questions, answered briefly

What is Rockshop?

A musical instrument shop in Papanui, Christchurch.

Where is Rockshop?

51` Main North Road, Papanui, on ` Main North Road. On the map →

Is Rockshop still trading?

On OpenStreetMap.

How do you contact Rockshop?

phone 03 539 0245, its website.

What other musical instrument are near Rockshop?

Christchurch Fine Violins (694 m), Music Planet (4.0 km), Sedley Wells Music Works (4.0 km), every one in the city.

What’s near Rockshop?

6 other premises within a short walk, nearest Lone Star Papanui (6 m); the Northlands Platform C bus stop is 79 m away: routes 1, 95, 107; a cycle lane passes the door; nearest park: Papanui Memorial Reserve (305 m).

What stood where Rockshop is, before?

The heritage-register places nearest the pin →

The record behind this

This page is the union of what these public sources say, each fact above names the one it came from. A listing is a lead, not a promise the business still trades:

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); council and ECan data under CC BY 4.0; Wikidata CC0. Something wrong? Fix it on OpenStreetMap or tell us. The whole directory lives at /businesses. This page as markdown: /business/rockshop-papanui.md.