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Cookie Time – Christchurch’s Cookie – 1983
While Cantabrian Michael Mayell was in the United States of America promoting New Zealand’s ski fields, he fell in love with the American cookie shops over there. Hunting down the classic housewife’s cookie recipe and saving up all his earnings, he returned to Christchurch with a sugar sweet dream. The year was 1983. In his …
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Lancaster Park Confronted By Anti-Apartheid Protesters – 15th August 1981
On 15th August 1981, racial tensions that had been brewing since the 1950’s, spilled out around the outskirts of Christchurch’s Lancaster Park as a rugby game was played between the All Blacks and the South African Team – the Springboks. Hundreds of anti-apartheid protesters swarmed around outside the park, finally breaking past riot police and …
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CHRISTCHURCH MADAM BEHIND NEW ZEALAND FAMOUS HIT ‘VICTORIA’ – 1981
It all began as a bit of joke. The sound of her walking along in her high heels would be the first sign that she was about to appear at the edge of the nearby car park. Then there would be a scramble to the window so her, always unusual, wardrobe could be analyzed as …
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Friendship Corner Is Opened Beside The Bridge of Remembrance – 29th September 1979
On 29 September 1979, Friendship Corner opened beside the Bridge of Remembrance. Towards the end of the 1970′s, the waste land that sat south of the Bridge of Remembrance, at the junction of Oxford, Cambridge Terraces and Lichfield Street was a hot topic at the Christchurch City Council. Something needed to be done with it. …
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