JOHN JENKINS PEACOCK – 1798 – 1868 From Sumner to Shag Pile (Shag’s Rock) is known as Peacock’s Gallop. Imagine it’s the 1850’s in Sumner. It’s still early morning, you may be still in bed when in the dimness comes the faint rumble of pounding horse hooves. It grows louder and louder, then you catch …
It wouldn’t be until March 1888 that the Committee of the Canterbury Agricultural & Pastoral Association met to discuss the amazing success they had enjoyed at their last Metropolitan Show, which had run from 9th to 11th November 1887. There had be serious doubts and nervousness amongst the members as this would be the first …
On 23 December 1876, Lyttelton’s Timeball Station began operation. A much loved icon, not many of us actually knew what it did A Timeball Station helps sailors to check their marine chronometers to determine their longitude at sea. It was back in 1870 when John Thomas Peacock – a member of the Canterbury Provincial Council …
