Discover The Delights Of Peeling Back History
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Blackheath
There is always something very special about those abodes and buildings in Christchurch that just don’t quite fit in…not only in a historic way but also in style and materials. Such a place exists on the corner Durham and Wordsworth Streets – Blackheath – as it states so proudly on its Durham Street frontage for …
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Purity, Piety, Philanthropy, Truth – John Robert Godley
“Mr [John Robert] Godley whom I remember as a boy at school thoroughly respected by all his schoolfellows, seems early in life to have been taught by the Tractarian movement at Oxford that the religion of a community should be its most important consideration…his letters have recently been published…and no volume of correspondence ever fell …
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Long Cloudless Summer Days – Unknown
“Who that was then at Lyttelton can never forget that delightful and exciting time? Those long cloudless summer days when we first began to build sod cottages, to carry boards upon our shouldars, when we first had to rough it, when we grumbled and laughed in a breath, and really did a great deal of …
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The Bridge of Remembrance
The suggestion of the need for a war memorial was first made in an article featured in ‘The Press’ on the 24th July 1923. The C.C.C. couldn’t ignore the support showed by the public for this idea so a competition was released for a design to be made. A company named Prouse and Gummer won; …
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