Bowhill Road

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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

• 160 Bowhill Road, 67 reports
• 169 Bowhill Road, 62 reports
• 11 Bowhill Road, 41 reports
• 33 Bowhill Road, 34 reports
• 48 Bowhill Road, 32 reports
• 7 Bowhill Road, 22 reports
• 39 Bowhill Road, 18 reports
• 2 Bowhill Road, 18 reports
• 172 Bowhill Road, 13 reports
• 167 Bowhill Road, 11 reports
• 72 Bowhill Road, 10 reports
• 68 Bowhill Road, 10 reports
• 36 Bowhill Road, 10 reports
• 35 Bowhill Road, 9 reports
• 1 Bowhill Road, 9 reports
• 96 Bowhill Road, 8 reports
• 22 Bowhill Road, 8 reports
• 163 Bowhill Road, 8 reports
• 161 Bowhill Road, 8 reports
• 45 Bowhill Road, 7 reports
• 32 Bowhill Road, 7 reports
• 167B Bowhill Road, 7 reports
• 67A Bowhill Road, 6 reports
• 69 Bowhill Road, 5 reports
• 23 Bowhill Road, 5 reports
• 185 Bowhill Road, 5 reports
• 92 Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 81 Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 60 Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 57 Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 51 Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 47A Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 45A Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 34 Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 26 Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 15 Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 145 Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 142 Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 123 Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 112B Bowhill Road, 4 reports
• 85 Bowhill Road, 3 reports
• 82 Bowhill Road, 3 reports
• 80 Bowhill Road, 3 reports
• 58 Bowhill Road, 3 reports
• 44 Bowhill Road, 3 reports
• 25 Bowhill Road, 3 reports
• 19 Bowhill Road, 3 reports
• 150 Bowhill Road, 3 reports
• 119 Bowhill Road, 3 reports
• 94 Bowhill Road, 2 reports
• 91-93 Bowhill Road, 2 reports
• 90 Bowhill Road, 2 reports
• 86 Bowhill Road, 2 reports
• 79 Bowhill Road, 2 reports
• 74 Bowhill Road, 2 reports
• 67 Bowhill Road, 2 reports
• 66 Bowhill Road, 2 reports
• 54 Bowhill Road, 2 reports
• 41a Bowhill Road, 2 reports
• 41B Bowhill Road, 2 reports

What got reported

• Graffiti & vandalism, 429 reports
• Roads & footpaths, 52 reports
• Trees & parks, 41 reports
• Rubbish & dumping, 36 reports
• Water & drains, 30 reports
• Vehicles & parking, 13 reports
• Everything else, 8 reports
• Animals & pests, 2 reports

Year by year

• 2016, 35 reports
• 2017, 98 reports
• 2018, 32 reports
• 2019, 38 reports
• 2020, 43 reports
• 2021, 26 reports
• 2022, 76 reports
• 2023, 81 reports
• 2024, 93 reports
• 2025, 58 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 17 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

• THE UNEMPLOYED. (Star, 27 July 1895) · Papers Past, 27 Jul 1895
  …engaged the snm expended in wages has been 267 on the following works forming palmer and bowhill roads in the new brighton ward cutting broom and grubbing goise on the board reserve between new brigh…
• FIRE. (Colonist, 01 November 1910) · Papers Past, 1 Nov 1910
  …brighton residents yliving near the domain cleared out the furniture in tiieir houses tn bowhill road woman leading ltle children fled from the flames mr house was destroyed between bowhill road and…
• NEW BRIGHTON FIRF. (Poverty Bay Herald, 01 November 1910) · Papers Past, 1 Nov 1910
  …d with blank dismay were helpless m despair the fire seemed to concentrate its efforts on bowhill road avhere there were a number of small houses the bowhill road is on the tramline which is just bein…
• FIRE! (Feilding Star, 01 November 1910) · Papers Past, 1 Nov 1910
  …on when the fire was under control and there was little further danger of it spreading in bowhill road and jubilee avenue the destruction of and damage to property was considerable adjoining the bound…
• THE FIRE NEAR NEW BRIGHTON. (Marlborough Express, 02 November 1910) · Papers Past, 2 Nov 1910
  …ames with blank dismay and helpless despair the fire seemed to concentrate its efforts on bowhill road where there were a number of small jhtouses bowhill road is on the tramline which is just being e…
• NEWS OF THE DAY. (Colonist, 15 July 1912) · Papers Past, 15 Jul 1912
  …cular stretch of the reserve facing the sea between the present limit of building and the bowhill road has lain idle and unused ever since the township was formed but reserves are intended for future…
• THE CITY. (Ashburton Guardian, 24 September 1913) · Papers Past, 24 Sept 1913
  …rass is being planted by the new brighton borough council along the north beach as far as bowhill road with the intention of protecting the tramway line from drifting sand the tramway board is contrib…
• Leverett's store · Canterbury Stories, 19 May 1922
  …for Ern Smith; and Uncle Tom's Cabin Store, Motor Garage, and Post & Telegraph office, on Bowhill Road. Ernest Smith, photographs and papers…
• Aerial photomosaic of North Beach · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1926
  Aerial photomosaic of North Beach showing Marine Parade, Bowhill Road, Marriotts Road, Bower Avenue, and Beach Road. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
• Girls Mysterious Death In Lonely Seaside Bach. (NZ Truth, 14 June 1928) · Papers Past, 14 Jun 1928
  …adjourned sine die the bach which almost abutta on the inter-city motor company garage in bowhill road and is only a few hundred yards from the north beach kiosk on the marine parade is almost hidden…
• LEFT SWEETHEART TO HER FATE (NZ Truth, 28 June 1928) · Papers Past, 28 Jun 1928
  …k the bach where the girl went to finally early in february last you took this baoh at 51 bowhill road and deceased went to live there yes and you used to visit her there yes and did you sleep there o…
• NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 27 May 1941) · Papers Past, 27 May 1941
  …atil thomas w gnr mr h alcfnul milton otago f mcllraith hnnry 8 gnr mr 1 h mrllraith ifil bowhill road north beach chrisichurch relationship not staierl mckay norman gnr mrs e mckay 171 ponsonbv road…

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

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Bowhill Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

• North Beach Beer GardenBars & pubs · 19 Bowhill Road New Brighton
• North Beach Fish SupplyFast food · 47 Bowhill Road

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Bowhill Road in 15 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 3 seriously hurt.

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.

• GREAT PURCHASE OF BICYCLE TYRES. (Star, 21 October 1908) · Star, 21 Oct 1908
• N.Z.E.F. ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 31 July 1942) · Evening Post, 31 Jul 1942
• ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 10 November 1942) · Evening Post, 10 Nov 1942

As it was reported

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The latest on it

• Dumped Rubbish, 161 Bowhill Rd, 7 Oct 2026
• Hazard, vehicle, 58 Bowhill Road, 4 Oct 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 148 Bowhill Rd, 8 Aug 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 11 Bowhill Road, 20 Jul 2026
• Pavement - General, 34 Bowhill Road, 30 Jun 2026
• Accessibility, 60 Bowhill Road, 27 Jun 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 167 Bowhill Rd, 16 Jun 2026
• Hazard, vehicle, 58 Bowhill Road, 13 Jun 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation, 36 Bowhill Road, 7 Jun 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation, 36 Bowhill Road, 7 Jun 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 169 Bowhill Rd, 7 Jun 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 173 Bowhill Road, 5 Jun 2026
• Water Leak, 161 Bowhill Road, 1 May 2026
• Street Light Outage, 112B Bowhill Road, 30 Mar 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 36 Bowhill Road, 28 Mar 2026