Discover The Delights Of Peeling Back History
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Hopton Napier Broome (1866 -1866)
Hopton Napier Broome (1866 -1866) Died of illness Place of Death: Whitecliffs, Canterbury “During the last twelve hours of his life, as I sat before the fire with him on my lap, poor Fredrick kneeling in a prefect agony of grief by my side, my greatest comfort was in looking at the exquisite photograph …
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Press Lane
It’s not hard to imagine the city’s reporters fanning out over the city, heading out to Christchurch’s hotels and taverns to listen in on nearby conversations over a pint. It still happens today and has been for years. Those who have those kinds of jobs – like in government for example – know to be …
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The First Burial At The Scotch (Addington) Cemetery – George McIlraith
I’m sure little George McIlraith paid little attention to the melting of the ice that had encased his older half sister Jane’s heart whenever John Deans had been in view or the subject of conversation. He would have been too far busy rumbling around Auchenflower farm to concern himself with foolish adult troubles. But George …
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James Edward Fitzgerald – So Much Success
“Rarely, if ever, has so much real work has been done by so small a body in so short a time; that never has any settlement been founded with so much success, so little disaster”. James Edward Fitzgerald ~ July 1853 *Canterbury’s First Superintendent* *Founder of The Lyttelton Times & The Press*
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