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The Limes Private Hospital 1880 – 1963
My dear old school friend Anthony hadn’t been working at the Christchurch Town Hall very long when he first heard about the haunted dressing rooms of the James Hay Theatre. I can’t recall whether he had been uneasy within himself when his duties called him to that part of the Town Hall or whether he …
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The Deans’ Cottage vs The Pollard Shanty
One can easily imagine the hard decision it was for Jane Deans to approve the demolition of the old Deans/Manson/Gebbie’s barn in 1897. It was after all, the very roof where her dearly departed husband and his late brother had laid their heads to rest over 50 years earlier, when the Riccarton she so loved …
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PEERSWICK – the forgotten past of Church Corner.
At Church Corner, at the western end of Riccarton Road, opposite Countdown are a series of shops and arcades. Long past their prime and popularity, one arcade there especially doesn’t fit in and that would be the Peerswick Mall. This very British sounding collection of shops is now the hub of Christchurch’s Asian shopping market, …
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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 …
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