Discover The Delights Of Peeling Back History
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Cathedral Square ~ 1916
Christchurch…you will always be a charming city…come what may xxx *Photo taken by Steffano Webb in 1916*
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Reuben Davis (1827 – 1901)
I came across Reuben Davis’ grave at St Mary’s Anglican Church in Halswell one weekend and with all the typical, can’t be explained curiousities that makes us human, I can’t stray from a gravestone that has the words ‘accident’ or ‘killed’ without taking a photo – especially if where they died is also scratched into …
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Deans Head
I’m sure as the schooner ‘Ballet’ sailed down the east coast of the Middle (South) Island, William Deans leaned against the deck railing and watched the passing coastline with great interest. He was aboard Captain Edward Daniell’s schooner as an approved stow-away and he held great hopes for what he might find down on the …
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Dr. A.C. Barker (1819 – 1873)
Date and Place of Birth: 5th January 1819 at Hackney, London Date and Place of Death: 20th March 1873 at Christchurch (from Meningitis) A Canterbury Association Settler: Arrived on the ‘Charlotte Jane’ – 16th December 1850 Roles in Early Canterbury: *Surgeon Superintendent on the ‘Charlotte Jane’ *Set up the first Doctor’s surgery in Christchurch – …
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