59E Manchester Street
11 council reports since February 2024, 11 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 297-299 Manchester Street, 103 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former R. Buchanan & Sons' City Foundry and Setting, 2/210 St Asaph Street (132m)
- Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting, 7/204 St Asaph Street (148m)
- Colonial Motor Company Garage and Setting, 201 St Asaph Street (216m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Lawrie and Wilson Auctioneers, 210 Tuam Street (218m)
- Former Tuam Street Hall and Setting, 214 Tuam Street (223m)
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 green nearby
- Wilson Park, 264 m to the edge
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 306 m to the edge · Botanic
- Gasson Reserve, 375 m to the edge
- Science Alive Reserve, 396 m to the edge
- Carlyle Reserve, 460 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- St Asaph, 356 m away · Car park
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 397 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Quest Hotel - Manchester Street, 19 m away · Hotels
- OneStaff, 27 m away · Recruitment
- Mr Charcoal CHCH, 32 m away · Restaurants
- Phoenix Restaurant, 32 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Manchester St near Welles St, 15 m away · route 27
- Manchester St near Allen St, 85 m away · route 27, route 84, route 85, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 5 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 232 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 254 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 273 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 283 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
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 →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 11 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 19 Nov 2025 graffiti on back flow box
Water Leak, 24 Jul 2025 Water leaking from WM. Next to power kiosk.
Water Leak, 23 Jul 2025 Toby box water leak over footpath on Colombo St Less than a garden hose
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 13 Jan 2025 Silver paint tag on Backflow Prevention Assembly asset opposite 59e Manchester Street.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 13 Jan 2025 Silver paint tag partly obscured by a sticky tag on metal lamp pole by 59e Manchester Street.
Graffiti somewhere else, 8 Nov 2024 Graffiti on the wall
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 2 Aug 2024 Graffiti on side of the building.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 24 Apr 2024 Graffiti across the wall of the building.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 24 Apr 2024 Graffiti across the building.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 27 Mar 2024 Opp 54 Manchester Street
Graffiti, 26 Feb 2024 Graffiti across transformer on Manchester street just before Plato Creative.
Elsewhere on Manchester Street
- 297-299 Manchester Street, 103 reports
- 293 Manchester Street, 72 reports
- 214 Manchester Street, 72 reports
- 153 Manchester Street, 52 reports
- 218 Manchester Street, 48 reports
- 76 Manchester Street, 45 reports
- 204 Manchester Street, 45 reports
- 192 Manchester Street, 40 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Manchester Street in 235 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 38 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central community board 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.
Manchester Street, the whole record → · Everything about Christchurch Central City → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
11 council reports on record since February 2024, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (4), water leak (2), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (2).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Manchester Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Former R. Buchanan & Sons' City Foundry and Setting, Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting.
Wilson Park, 264 m to its edge.










