Bishop Street
8 reports at 4 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 8 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Bishop Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Christchurch Central City.
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 addresses on it
- 6 Bishop Street, 4 reports
- 1 Bishop Street, 2 reports
- 9 Bishop Street, 1 report
- 15 Bishop Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Vehicles & parking, 2 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 2 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 2 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 2 reports
Year by year
- 2020, 1 report
- 2022, 2 reports
- 2023, 4 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 47 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 18 October 1856)
· Papers Past,
…e road to run from ooppeli cottage heathcote valley to baxter ferry kaiapoi to start from bishop store christchurch every mondayand thursday mornings at half-past eight ibr coppells and will leave the…
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 24 July 1858)
· Papers Past,
…lock taylor popplewell undertakers sale of firewood mr longden will sell by auction at mr bishop stores market place christchurch on saturday next july 24 immediately after the sale of surplus stores…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Lyttelton Times, 28 August 1858)
· Papers Past,
…business and packing over the hill to and from the van all packages or parcels left at mr bishop store christchurch for conveyance to lyttelton or at the mitre hotel mr hey wood store mr gee store lyt…
- Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 18 February 1860)
· Papers Past,
…y for y children and invalids can be had only of john mummery sole maker next ot dann and bishop store colombo street christchurch v corn sacks and giunny bags bales of the above on sale m ealport mar…
- Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 07 April 1860)
· Papers Past,
…children and invalids can be had only of john mummery sole maker next ot messrs dann and bishop store colombo street christchurch run for sale 90 000 acres of goo sheep jjyj j j country sixty miles f…
- Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 18 April 1860)
· Papers Past,
…children and invalids can be had only of johtf mummery sole maker next of messrs dann and bishop store colombo street christchurch run for sale 90 nnn acres f g4 steepjjyjjj country sixty miles from c…
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The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Bishop Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 0 seriously hurt.
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.
8 reports at 4 addresses, most often vehicles & parking (2), rubbish & dumping (2), roads & footpaths (2).
2020, the record covers 8 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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