Up until February 22nd, 2011, the city of Christchurch was a unique, historic and cultural living and breathing entity. Inherited from a long list of valuable contributors dating back to its incept…
Wendy Riley Wendy is not originally from Christchurch but has many connections to the city, which brought her to settle here in 1992. Like many other New Zealanders, her forebears travelled here fr…
“To settle what seems to be a somewhat vexed question, a representative of the Lyttelton Times yesterday made inquiries among a number of the Pilgrims with regard to the authenticity, or otherwise,…
“Christchurch people of the younger generations and strangers to the city who wander among the ordered prettinesses of the Christchurch Botanical Gardens, and pace along the pleasant winding paths …
The busiest intersection in the central city heaves under a rush of pedestrians, buses, trams, cyclists and private motor cars, pushing passed each other as they head for various parts of the city.
Imagine an event so exciting, so spectacular, that 38 trains were required travelling at 28 minute intervals to convey curious sightseers to Lyttelton in order to witness it. The roads from Christc…
Almost a century ago, the story of Mary Poppins and the Match-Man was published for the first time – in Christchurch’s afternoon newspaper, The Sun. But how did the story of the world’s most famous…
The construction of government buildings have long attracted opinion and criticism and the Italian Renaissance style Government Buildings on the corner of Worcester street and Cathedral Square were…
“Bridges are as much a distinctive part of the Christchurch landscape as its well-planted appearance and its old Gothic style provincial buildings. The chance which placed the city by the river Avo…
The story of a rugby mad church cleric, his neglected wife and a widowed publican. Read time approximately 26 minutes. He was a widower and father of two children. She was a cleric’s wife, te…
“In the bay in which we landed, we found two or three miserable primitive Maori cabins, inhabited by half-a-dozen helpless old creatures and a few diseased children — forming a pa named Rapaki.”…
Cobb & Co, Corner of Cashel and High Streets c. 1880. Source: Christchurch City Libraries Photo Collection 22, Img 00803, Private Collection For as far back as 1856, when the first hansom cab p…
Page 5 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 10 December 2013.
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Page 3 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 4 December 2012.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 4 December 2013.
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Page 3 of Section A of the South Island edition of the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 12 August 2011.
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Page 1 of Section A of the South Island edition of the Christchurch Press, published on Monday 18 July 2011.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Friday 17 February 2012.
Almost 1 million artefacts were discovered in a 'big dig' after the Christchurch earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.
Over 4000 people have reported feeling the quake.
Page 1 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Monday 31 March 2014.
Page 5 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Monday 31 March 2014.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 6 November 2013.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Friday 21 June 2013.