The dark side of the earthquake evacuations

Articles, TV3

Police are investigating at least 19 cases of looting throughout Canterbury after properties were robbed while occupants fled to safety.

Bright lights, small city

Articles, Christchurch uncovered

Beware the darkness, children, for there be monsters We love to characterise the dark as something to be feared, the territory of nightmares, of ghouls and ghosts and things that go bump. In our collective psyche it belongs to the … Continue reading →

 “Strange Freak of a New Zealand Girl”

Articles, Lost Christchurch

Dressed in a black cutaway coat, dark trousers and a white silk neckcloth, and sporting a Billy-Cock hat over short hair, Henry Jame Muir stood before a London magistrate in 1889 dressed in the clo…

Ethel Bradley and the Cashel Street Mystery

Articles, Lost Christchurch

Peering into the mirror, Ethel May Bradley places on her head the large black hat that her sister-in-law, Clara has trimmed for her with ribbon. Reflected back is a neat figure dressed in a dark bl…