Blighs Road

19 reports at 7 addresses in Bryndwr, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 17 separate days somebody filed something about it.

19 reports 7 addresses17 days reported onfrom the air, then 10 documents carry the namethe 2535th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Blighs Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Blighs Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Blighs Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Blighs Road 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

4 Blighs Road, 7 reports
19A Blighs Road, 4 reports
1 Blighs Road, 3 reports
55 Blighs Road, 2 reports
71 Blighs Road, 1 report
35 Blighs Road, 1 report
33 Blighs Road, 1 report

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 7 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 5 reports
Trees & parks, 4 reports
Water & drains, 1 report
Rubbish & dumping, 1 report
Everything else, 1 report

Year by year

2018, 1 report
2021, 3 reports
2022, 2 reports
2023, 2 reports
2025, 8 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 08 February 1888) · Papers Past, 8 Feb 1888
…onerally ueeful wl star office 0334 wanted boy to milk about 16 years old apply to c were blighs road papanui 9415 anted general servant 16 or 18 years old so lich field street reference required 9414…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 23 September 1899) · Papers Past, 23 Sept 1899
…chains frontage x 2 chains deep 125 each i papanui road close to hawthorn road l-acra 100 blighs road just off f-acre and 7 perches well fenced 65 must be sold j chapel street three i-acre building se…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 04 November 1899) · Papers Past, 4 Nov 1899
…lery washhouse copocr stabling coachhouso and man 3 room etc h l bowker son market square blighs road just off about a acres first-class land j-acre garden orchard houso 5 rooms iron roof stable and o…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 25 August 1902) · Papers Past, 25 Aug 1902
…with pantry copper and scullery full quarter-acre 133 ft frontag very easy terms papanui blighs road just off house 6 rooms balh washhouecullery verandah good orchard nearly half an acre 400 sections…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 21 January 1904) · Papers Past, 21 Jan 1904
…oper vies ior oaiw v jj donald mclennan house and estat agent 120 colombo street for sale blighs road a good spec good 6-roomed house scullery verandah etc dairy stable trapshed orchard 1 acre 550 mad…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 02 June 1905) · Papers Past, 2 Jun 1905
…ntreal and walker streets 8273 wanted capable girl as general f liberal wages mrs powri-3 blighs road five minutes from tram 8258 oyanted for year unfurnished 5 or 6 tj roomed house sumner c times age…
NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 27 May 1941) · Papers Past, 27 May 1941
…l barnsley newport terrace seatoun wellington m beattie thomas c pte mrs n l beattie 186 blighs road papanui christchurch w bell lan s tbdr mr h n bell box 885 auckland f bennett george a s gnr airs…
TODAY'S LIST (Evening Post, 30 June 1941) · Papers Past, 30 Jun 1941
…john pte mr 3 m garforth high street greymouth s henshaw james parker pte mr g henshaw 5 blighs road papanul f houghton laurence douglas livingstone cpl mrs m a houghton 82 albany street dunedin w ho…
REPORTED SAFE (Evening Post, 23 April 1945) · Papers Past, 23 Apr 1945
…ntgomery 243 great south road greenlane m jiulholland edgar p lcpl jlrs l jlulholland 189 blighs road christchurch m norrish joseph j pte jlrs l symondsj 100 byron street sydenham friend patterson fre…
Picea pungens Engelm. · Te Papa Collections Online, 6 Aug 1965
Picea pungens Engelm., collected 6 August 1965, [Cultivated], Christchurch, garden in Blighs Road, New Zealand. Exchange from Allan Herbarium, 2000. CC BY 4.0. Te Papa (SP082054) Plants; Te Papa…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Blighs Road in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Blighs Road & Papanui Road, 42 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.