Discover The Delights Of Peeling Back History
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Difficulties That Colonists Have To Encounter – Georgiana Bowen
“It is ill-suited for any but the young, strong and active. I could make you cry with the recital of the various shifts and difficulties that colonists have to encounter”. Georgiana Bowen (1810 – ? ) ~ 12th March 1851 Georgiana arrived in Canterbury with her husband, her children, Charles, Croisdale, Letitia and her sister-in-law …
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Christchurch’s Soiled Doves
On the 22nd November 1867, a city meeting took place at Christchurch’s Town Hall concerning the ‘…too bold and brazen…’ and ‘…professionally quite openly…’ attitude of Christchurch’s fallen sisters of the night. No women were in attendance. Even before the arrival of the First Four Ships, prostitutes were known to frequent Lyttelton. With the jump …
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The Lyttelton Times
On the 11th January 1851, the first issue of The Lyttelton Times hit the shelves. As the Canterbury Association made their plans for New Zealand’s newest Church of England (Anglican) settlement, they spoke of a grand Cathedral and college being at its heart with a good number of public domains for recreation and oh yes, …
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Cantabs Of Steel
Next time you are getting a little impatient with how long the traffic lights are taking to change or moaning at the weeds growing untamed outside your window, I want you to think of these four Cantabs. Firstly, there was Marmaduke Dixon who with his own hands, dug an 8 foot deep well on his …
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