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Hotel An Early Salute To Christchurch’s Sawyers – 1853
I grew up just around the corner from Sawyers Arms Road, and, being a naturally curious child, one day I asked my father what a “sawyer” was. After learning what a sawyer does, and then seeing the word ‘arms’ in the road name, I instantly imagined large-armed lumberjacks hard at work – but the true …
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Canterbury’s First Wind Mill – 1853
For a inventive fella who had spent most of his working life on the Thames, with London as the backdrop, his new life on Banks Peninsula couldn’t have been more foreign – but what a muse! Arthur Waghorn was born on 16th October 1814 at Dartford, Kent. At the time he first heard about the …
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Canterbury Founder Farewelled – 25th December 1852
“For the last five years, ever since the plan of founding a settlement of Church People in New Zealand was first suggested to me…the thought of it has hardly been for a moment out of my mind; I have become, for the time at least, a man of one idea, to which everything else, public …
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The First Sitting Of The Supreme Court – 6th November 1852
On the 6th November 1852, the first sitting of the Canterbury Supreme Court took place at the Lyttelton Immigration Barracks, in the same room used by the future Christ’s College. George Johnston was charged with breaking and entering into a merchant warehouse owned by David Laurie. He was accused of stealing a pair of blankets, …
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