# 385 Barbadoes Street, Christchurch Central City

11 reports on record since July 2017 · 8 with photographs.

https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/385-barbadoes-street

## What gets reported here
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti), 5
- [Rubbish/Recycling](https://www.chch.live/problems/bins-recycling), 1
- [Pit and Equipment - General](https://www.chch.live/problems/road-damage), 1
- [Pavement - General](https://www.chch.live/problems/footpaths), 1
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti), 1
- [Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti), 1

## Reported here
- [Flooding](https://www.chch.live/report/7115252), 28 Oct 2025
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/5760837), 26 Jan 2025
- [Pavement - General](https://www.chch.live/report/5258907), 13 Oct 2024
- [Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset](https://www.chch.live/report/4784885), 16 Jun 2024
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/4018307), 12 Dec 2023
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/3859181), 31 Oct 2023
- [Pit and Equipment - General](https://www.chch.live/report/3322872), 9 May 2023
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/3008357), 24 Jan 2023
- [Rubbish/Recycling](https://www.chch.live/report/2019263), 17 Dec 2021
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/1001637), 28 Feb 2020

## Photographed here (8 on record)
- [Flooding](https://www.chch.live/report/7115252), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/07115252/public/1_396psi98ic6u.jpg
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/5760837), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05760837/public/1_gieb01lv8nr4.jpg
- [Pavement - General](https://www.chch.live/report/5258907), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05258907/public/1_aa3a6txylwru.jpg
- [Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset](https://www.chch.live/report/4784885), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04784885/public/1_g0t57sc3x2u3.jpg
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/4018307), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04018307/public/1_524417fa8slx.jpg
- [Rubbish/Recycling](https://www.chch.live/report/2019263), https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/02019263/1_qfZMRf.jpg
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/1001637), https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/01001637/0_me619F
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/278542), https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/00278542/0

[More photographs on the Christchurch Central City wall](https://www.chch.live/wall?suburb=christchurch-central-city)

## Also reported on Barbadoes Street
- [390 Barbadoes Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/390-barbadoes-street), 65 reports
- [259 Barbadoes Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/259-barbadoes-street), 51 reports
- [384 Barbadoes Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/384-barbadoes-street), 47 reports
- [321 Barbadoes Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/321-barbadoes-street), 37 reports
- [377 Barbadoes Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/377-barbadoes-street), 36 reports
- [288 Barbadoes Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/288-barbadoes-street), 29 reports
- [407 Barbadoes Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/407-barbadoes-street), 28 reports
- [324 Barbadoes Street](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/324-barbadoes-street), 28 reports
- [Barbadoes Street, the whole record](https://www.chch.live/street/christchurch-central-city/barbadoes-street)

## From the air, then
- [1940-1944](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5245&lon=172.6455&decade=1940_1944), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1960-1964](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5245&lon=172.6455&decade=1960_1964), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1970-1974](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5245&lon=172.6455&decade=1970_1974), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1975-1979](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5245&lon=172.6455&decade=1975_1979), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

*Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Clean CC BY decades only; NZAM-covered spots stay out. [RetroLens](https://retrolens.co.nz/) holds more Crown aerials.*

## On the doorstep
- [Christchurch Bridge Club](https://www.chch.live/business/christchurch-bridge-club-christchurch-central-city), 192 m away · Clubs
- [Piko Whole Foods](https://www.chch.live/business/piko-whole-foods-christchurch-central-city), 205 m away · Dairies & convenience
- [Boteco Cafe & Restaurant](https://www.chch.live/business/boteco-cafe-restaurant-christchurch-central-city), 213 m away · Restaurants
- [The Herb Centre Cafe](https://www.chch.live/business/the-herb-centre-cafe-christchurch-central-city), 217 m away · Cafés

*Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.*

## The bus nearby
- [Fitzgerald Ave near Alexandra St](https://www.chch.live/buses?stop=28784), 432 m away · [route 7](https://www.chch.live/buses/7)
- [Fitzgerald Ave near River Rd](https://www.chch.live/buses?stop=28491), 441 m away · [route 7](https://www.chch.live/buses/7)

*The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.*

## The remembered names nearby
- [This Cairn / Marks the Site / of the / Brick Wharf](https://www.chch.live/plaque/310902-avon-riverbank-central-city), 95 m away, “THIS CAIRN / MARKS THE SITE / OF THE / BRICK WHARF / WHERE THE / EARLY SETTLER / LANDED 18…”
- [Barbadoes Cemetery plaque](https://www.chch.live/plaque/69497-barbadoes-cemetery), 182 m away · 2003
- [Plaque no. 310899](https://www.chch.live/plaque/310899-ground), 193 m away

*The plaque pins come from the register, a recorded spot, not a surveyed one. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques).*

## The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Barbadoes Street in 215 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 31 seriously hurt.

[The crashes it names, each one →](https://www.chch.live/crashes?road=barbadoes-street&suburb=christchurch-central-city)

## Renting nearby

New bonds in Christchurch Central City ran about **$508 a week**, $42 below the city median of $550, [the suburb page keeps the rent record →](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city#s-living).

## The civic layer

This ground votes in [Central ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/central), the [Papanui-Innes-Central community board](https://www.chch.live/boards/papanui-innes-central) is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at [/wards](https://www.chch.live/wards).

## What was here, The Bricks Site, Cairn and Setting
*109 m away · 311 Oxford Terrace · located to ±35 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/44)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

## What was here, Barbadoes Street Cemetery and Setting
*on this spot · located to ±198 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/293)*
- Barbadoes Street Cemetery's burial record runs in three Church of England registers: No. 1 from 9 April 1851 to 29 January 1870, No. 2 from 2 February 1870 to 3 September 1882, and No. 3 from 4 September 1882 into the 1970s., Barbadoes Street Cemetery : alphabetical list of burials (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/barbadoesregisters/ccl-cs-26181), 1851-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Each register entry records when the person was buried, their name and surname, age, sex, parents' or husband's name, rank or profession, place of residence, and who performed the ceremony., Barbadoes St Cemetery, Church of England, Register no. 1 (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/barbadoesregisters/ccl-cs-26179), 1851-04-09T00:00:00Z
- The cemetery's ground was surveyed in nine historical plot plans, block by block — bordered by Barbadoes Street to the west and Cambridge Terrace to the south and east — and the plots are not consistently numbered; beside the lych-gate in block 3A, plot 780a is noted as apparently infant graves., Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 1B (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/barbadoesstreet/ccl-cs-12871), 1851-01-01T00:00:00Z
- The plots were sold: a separate burial plots book keeps receipt numbers, purchasers' names, plot numbers and sizes, and amounts paid, and its later pages record deposits on part-purchased plots, the completed purchase, and when title was given., Barbadoes Street. Burial plots book (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/barbadoesregisters/ccl-cs-26184), 1872-07-01T00:00:00Z
- By 1945 the cemetery sat inside a built-up city — a view across its headstones that year shows residential houses over the back fence — and by 1979 its graves and headstones were weathered, broken or fallen over; headstones still stood in the western portion in 2005., Barbadoes Street Cemetery headstones (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/glassplates/ccl-cs-119996), 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Written: [The cemetery the records kept](https://www.chch.live/article/the-cemetery-the-records-kept)

## What was here, Commercial Building and Setting
*244 m away · 228 Kilmore Street · located to ±11 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/124)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

## The green nearby
- [Cambridge Green](https://www.chch.live/park/1025-cambridge-green), 17 m to the edge
- [Barbadoes Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/park/1341-barbadoes-cemetery), 34 m to the edge · Botanic · 3 ha
- [Avon Riverbank Central City](https://www.chch.live/park/1868-avon-riverbank-central-city), 77 m to the edge · 6 ha
- [Moa Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1636-moa-reserve), 182 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- [Walnut Tree Park](https://www.chch.live/park/986-walnut-tree-park), 236 m to the edge · playground, 25 pieces

*Within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data.*

## The tracks through here
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-538-christchurch-central-city), 39 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-546-christchurch-central-city), 44 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-542-christchurch-central-city), 97 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-536-christchurch-central-city), 211 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-532-christchurch-central-city), 227 m to the line · walk · bike

*Lines passing within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.*

## Questions, answered briefly

**What has been reported at 385 Barbadoes Street?**

11 council reports on record since July 2017, most often graffiti (5), rubbish/recycling (1), pit and equipment - general (1).

**Which suburb is 385 Barbadoes Street in?**

Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on [Barbadoes Street](https://www.chch.live/street/christchurch-central-city/barbadoes-street).

**What stood at 385 Barbadoes Street before?**

The heritage register names 3 places at or beside it, [The Bricks Site, Cairn and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/44), [Barbadoes Street Cemetery and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/293).

**What is the nearest park to 385 Barbadoes Street?**

[Cambridge Green](https://www.chch.live/park/1025-cambridge-green), 17 m to its edge.

Data: https://api.chch.live/address?suburb=christchurch-central-city&address=385-barbadoes-street · Reports: https://api.chch.live/reports.rss?suburb=Christchurch%20Central%20City&street=barbadoes-street
