Blighs Road
33 reports at 9 addresses in PAPANUI, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 30 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 Blighs Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is PAPANUI.
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
- 131 Blighs Road, 19 reports
- 133 Blighs Road, 3 reports
- 128 Blighs Road, 3 reports
- 137 Blighs Road, 2 reports
- 121 Blighs Road, 2 reports
- 85 Blighs Road, 1 report
- 139 Blighs Road, 1 report
- 124 Blighs Road, 1 report
- 116 Blighs Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 13 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 12 reports
- Trees & parks, 3 reports
- Water & drains, 2 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 2 reports
- Everything else, 1 report
Year by year
- 2017, 2 reports
- 2020, 1 report
- 2021, 1 report
- 2022, 6 reports
- 2023, 10 reports
- 2024, 3 reports
- 2025, 6 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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
…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,
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…
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The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Blighs Road in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Blighs Road & Papanui Road, 42 crashes pinned to the pairing.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Pavement - Damaged, 128 Blighs Road,
- Pavement - General, 137 Blighs Road,
- Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 128 Blighs Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 133 Blighs Rd,
- Traffic Signals, 131 Blighs Rd,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 128 Blighs Road,
- Traffic Signals, 131 Blighs Rd,
- General Request, 85 Blighs Road,
- Graffiti somewhere else, 133 Blighs Road,
- Graffiti somewhere else, 131 Blighs Road,
- Graffiti somewhere else, 131 Blighs Road,
- Roads - General, 131 Blighs Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 131 Blighs Road,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 131 Blighs Road,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 137 Blighs Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In PAPANUI, Christchurch, New Zealand.
33 reports at 9 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (13), roads & footpaths (12), trees & parks (3).
2017, the record covers 30 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Blighs Road and Papanui Road, 42 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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