In spite of the traffic that began to use the Heathcote River from the arrival of the first four ships in 1850, Woolston did not show real signs of life until the building of its church – St John the Evangelist – in 1857. Just a little cob building, a community began to settle in …
Thomas John Edmonds was born in Poplar, London in the year 1858. As a young man he worked for a several different confectioneries where he learnt the mixing of different kinds of cooking powders. It was here that Thomas began to get ideas about making his own baking powder. In 1879, Thomas married Jane Irvine …
On 1 November 1921, the Woolston Borough joined the Greater Christchurch and came under the care of the C.C.C. Once named the Lower Heathcote, Woolston became known as New Zealand’s centre of the rubber industry. Always known as the working man’s suburb, Woolston can boast proudly of some of Christchurch’s earliest industrial history. The attached …
