As Christchurch approached its 2nd birthday, there was a mixture of emotions on the city’s dusty roads. Since the arrival of the First Four Ships, another 21 Canterbury Association ships had docked at Port Lyttelton and more than 2500 settlers had flooded into Canterbury. Like those before them, the lies of the Canterbury Association were …
“On the east side of Market Place stood Mr. Gould’s General Store with a great barrier in the middle of the floor filled with fascinating coils of rope-like tobacco – fascinating because we thought it was good to having (having I suppose watched sailors and Maoris chewing lumps) till an experimentalising younger brother nearly put …
“The Cathedral is a work of the imagination only…my bull is tethered in the nave.” Conway Lucas Rose ~ May 1852 * Passenger of the ‘Midlothian’ – the Canterbury Association’s 15th ship * Co-Founder of The Church of New Zealand – was a licensed clergyman * First manager of the Union Bank of Australia situated …
Waltham Road looking north. Note the Catholic Cathedral in the distance. *image courtesy of http://buswatchnz.blogspot.co.nz*
The Beckenham Loop is a part of the Heathcote River that sits south of Fisher Ave and east of Colombo Street. It once was known as the intersection between three ancient Maori areas – Otautahi, Ihutai and Opawawaho. Otautahi is now known as Governor’s Bay and means ‘The place of one daughter’. Over 300 years …
*ghastly content lay within – read on at ye own peril* King James I had no problem admitting to others that he greatly admired Guy Fawkes. He was stubbornly steadfast, dedicated, passionate and brutally honest – even in the face of death. These were values that demanded respect from all that met him, even from …
We all know the adrenaline rush when we see something that grasps our imagination in such a way, that it makes us feel like we could reach up and take the very stars out of the sky. This is what happened to Henry Francis Wigram when he saw his first plane in 1908 and he …