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  • The Weeping Willows Of Christchurch

    The Weeping Willows of Christchurch has such a lovely sound to it 😉 By the Avon in Victoria Square, the story of Canterbury’s Weeping Willows are told on this plaque, a nearby Willow it seems standing guard 🙂 François Lelievre was born in Les Parlierre, France around the year of 1811. He grew up on …

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  • Drains Anyone?

    There was no way to get a great photo of this but gotta get points for trying right? On Fairfield Ave in Addington, they have built a replica of Christchurch’s earliest brick drainage systems. Christchurch was the first city in New Zealand to have this in the 1880’s. At the time, the city was being …

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