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TRADER MCKENDRY’S
It was publican James McKendry’s quirky side business that made him so likeable. You could expect, alongside your beer, additional items that were for sale with the following question of something like “Is there anything you wanted me to look at, for a trade maybe?”. He soon earned the name of Trader McKendry, a term …
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ISAAC LUCK (1817 – 1881)
Isaac Luck, the man destined to become the most forgotten architectural influence on Christchurch, arrived in Lyttelton 9th June 1851, aboard the Canterbury Association’s 9th ship, the ‘Steadfast’. As Luck stepped ashore, the man who would play an interesting role in his future was just a few buildings away, selling stationery and giving drawing lessons. …
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The First Burial At The Scotch (Addington) Cemetery – George McIlraith
I’m sure little George McIlraith paid little attention to the melting of the ice that had encased his older half sister Jane’s heart whenever John Deans had been in view or the subject of conversation. He would have been too far busy rumbling around Auchenflower farm to concern himself with foolish adult troubles. But George …
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Cottage Rock
We all know Cave Rock (was once known as Cass Rock, named after Thomas Cass, a surveyor)very well; is there a Cantab out there who hasn’t climbed up its south side to look down over Sumner Beach? BUT who really noticed the smaller rock formation to its right? I know of it, I can picture …
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