Bowhill Road
22 reports at 5 addresses in North New Brighton, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 21 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 Bowhill Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is North 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
- 34 Bowhill Road, 7 reports
- 160 Bowhill Road, 7 reports
- 36 Bowhill Road, 6 reports
- 96 Bowhill Road, 1 report
- 100-104 Bowhill Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 20 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 1 report
- Roads & footpaths, 1 report
Year by year
- 2018, 2 reports
- 2019, 6 reports
- 2020, 2 reports
- 2021, 1 report
- 2022, 6 reports
- 2023, 1 report
- 2024, 2 reports
- 2025, 1 report
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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
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,
…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,
…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,
…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 named ground
Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Bowhill Road in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Pavement - General, 36 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti somewhere else, 36 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti somewhere else, 160 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti, 36 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti, 160 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti, 34 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti, 36 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti, 34 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti, 160 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti, 160 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti, 34 Bowhill Road,
- Rubbish/Recycling, 36 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti, 160 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti, 160 Bowhill Road,
- Graffiti, 34 Bowhill Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In North New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
22 reports at 5 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (20), rubbish & dumping (1), roads & footpaths (1).
2018, the record covers 21 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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