The Fire House Nightclub

As the sun set on the era of the Provincial Government, Christchurch – like most of the country’s main cities – must have felt a sudden vacuum as the Christchurch City Council settled itself into its new role.   Christchurch that we know today was in 1876, just a land mass with pockets of population, only …

Charles Prince (1822 – 1908)

Charles Prince (1822 – 1908)     Died of old age       Place of Death: U.S.A * Remembered in the naming of the suburbs Sydenham and Waltham. Buried at the Mt Pleasant Old City Cemetery, Iowa, U.S.A. The story of Sydenham and Waltham: http://www.peelingbackhistory.co.nz/sydenham-waltham-charles-prince-1822-1908/ Photo courtesy of http://www.findagrave.com/