Discover The Delights Of Peeling Back History
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The Hart Family
The first time I read about the Hart family, my imagination was stirred! Here was this family fresh off the ‘Cressy’ struggling through the tussock of the Canterbury Plains (after tramping over the Bridle Path and punting across the Heathcote), squinting into the blazing setting sun. They stop for breath, the father looking at his …
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The BNZ Bank – Cathedral Square
For roughly 150 years now, the BNZ (Bank of New Zealand) bank has sat on the corners of Colombo and Hereford Streets and Cathedral Square. The BNZ bank was born during the Otago Goldrush of the 1860’s. The first branch opened in Auckland in 1861. Christchurch got its first branch in September 1866, and up …
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LYTTELTON – Lord George Lyttelton (1817 – 1876)
Also known as Lord Lieutenant of Worcesteshire, George was born into a VERY noble English family. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, George grew up to be a British aristocrat and a Conservative politician. On his 21st birthday, he took his seat in the House of Lords. A great fan of colonialism, he became the …
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Previous Earthquakes
On the 25th January 1855, Wellington experienced a city changing 8.2 earthquake which was felt county-wide. Jane Deans writes: “One the 25th of January (1855) we had a severe shock of a earthquake, the worst I had felt till then. It did a great deal of damage to Nelson and Wellington, though not so much …
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