Papanui Road

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Papanui Road, 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 numbered spots

• 2 Papanui Road, 1 report
• 19/2 Papanui Road, 1 report

What got reported

• Graffiti & vandalism, 2 reports

Year by year

• 2023, 1 report
• 2025, 1 report

Documents that name it

Records on the shelf that name Papanui Road, 1,554 in total; the 12 earliest:

• Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 24 January 1852) · Papers Past · 24 Jan 1852
  …ior well-burnt bricks may be had in any quantity at the kiln back of dr barker rural land papanui road samples may be seen at the store of mr gibbs christchurch w parxinson on sale at the store of the…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 31 January 1852) · Papers Past · 31 Jan 1852
  …ior well-burnt bricks may be had in any quantity at the kiln back of dr barker rural land papanui road samples may be seen at the store of mr gibbs christchurch w paitinson bricks bricks bricks orders…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 27 March 1852) · Papers Past · 27 Mar 1852
  henry flavel tailor papanui road near the market-place christchurch nb all orders punctually attended to and neatly executed j dil…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 03 April 1852) · Papers Past · 3 Apr 1852
  …al saddler harness maker christchurch mews nb repairs neatly executed henry flavel tailor papanui roadjiear the market-place christchurch nb all orders punctually attended to and neatly executed j dil…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 03 April 1852) · Papers Past · 3 Apr 1852
  …ch for sale cjeveral small allotments of from two u to five acres of land situated on the papanui road apply to mr prichard solicitor christchurch for sale ttnselected land orders i cookson bowler co…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 10 April 1852) · Papers Past · 10 Apr 1852
  …uich for sale cjeveral small allotments of from two to five acres of land situated on the papanui road apply to mr prichard solicitor christehurch for sale a bargain rjihe framework of a 4-roomed hous…
• Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 17 April 1852) · Papers Past · 17 Apr 1852
  …hurch for sale several small allotments of from two to five acres of land situated on the papanui road apply to mr pkichard solicitor christchurch to let or to be sold by private contract first bate b…
• Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 01 May 1852) · Papers Past · 1 May 1852
  …tuated in kilmore street christchurch on the north side of the river avon and near to the papanui road another quarter acre section situated in gloucester street christchurch near to the footbridge ac…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 29 May 1852) · Papers Past · 29 May 1852
  for sale plots of land situate about one mile from christchurch on the papanui road at from 4 os to o os an acre according to the terms of purchase also an unselected land order for…
• Page 12 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 05 June 1852) · Papers Past · 5 Jun 1852
  …be let at christchurch tw o first-rate sections of excellent land one of 100 acres on the papanui road and the other of 50 acres on the euismere road in-farms of 25 acres each or upwards to suit the c…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 12 June 1852) · Papers Past · 12 Jun 1852
  …be let at christchurch tw o first-rate sections of excellent land one of 100 acres on the papanui road and the other of 50 acres on the ellismere road in farms of 25 acres each or upwards to suit the…
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 12 June 1852) · Papers Past · 12 Jun 1852
  …eathcote parsonage for sale dlots of land situate about one mile from christchurch on the papanui road at from 4 1 os to b os an acre according to the terms of purchase for particulars apply to mr pri…

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Papanui Road in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

Latest on record

• Graffiti somewhere else at 19/2 Papanui Road, 15 Jan 2025
• Graffiti at 2 Papanui Road, 13 Oct 2023