Register Record for Durham Street Methodist Church, 309 Durham Street Nort…
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Register Record for Durham Street Methodist Church, 309 Durham Street North, Christchurch.
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Building Record Form for the Durham Street Methodist Church, 309 Durham St…
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Building Record Form for the Durham Street Methodist Church, 309 Durham Street North, Christchurch.
Archaeological Report on 1-11 Main North Road
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An archaeological report compiled for New Zealand Historic Places Trust under the Historical Places Act 1993
Handsome and substantial – Warner’s Hotel, Cathedral Square
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On the north east corner of Cathedral Square, the Commercial Hotel, owned by John Etherden Coker (1832 – 1894) was opened in 1863. The name Warner’s was not used until the hotel’s…
Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV, pages 272-273: Events Village
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A PDF copy of pages 272-273 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Events Village'. Photos with permission: CCC
Shaves & Shampoos on the North West Corner of Cathedral Square
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It’s just before 3pm on a late summer day in 1914. Prolific Christchurch photographer, Steffano Webb is setting up his camera equipment inside the gents’ hairdressing saloon of well kno…
September 1888 – the most destructive earthquake since the Canterbury Pilg…
Articles, Lost Christchurch
Shortly after 4 o’clock this morning the whole of the South and a portion of the North Island was shaken by a violent shock of earthquake, the most severe experienced for more than 20 years……
St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Kilmore and Manchester Street corner
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The wooden church of St Luke the Evangelist, stood in Manchester Street, just north of the Avon, from 1858 until it was pulled down in 1908 to make way for a larger stone and brick structure, faced…
Majestical mountains
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In the beginning there was no Te Wai Pounamu or Aotearoa. The waters of Kiwa rolled over the place now occupied by the South Island, the North Island and Stewart Island. No sign of land existed. Before Raki (the Sky … Continue reading →
A tale of two suburbs: the story (and the man) behind the naming of Sydenh…
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Should you have been so fortunate, while wandering the streets of 1860s Christchurch, to find yourself north of the square, you may have come across an establishment bearing the name of Sydenham House and containing within its walls all manner of … Continue reading →
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