Discover The Delights Of Peeling Back History
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PEERSWICK – the forgotten past of Church Corner.
At Church Corner, at the western end of Riccarton Road, opposite Countdown are a series of shops and arcades. Long past their prime and popularity, one arcade there especially doesn’t fit in and that would be the Peerswick Mall. This very British sounding collection of shops is now the hub of Christchurch’s Asian shopping market, …
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The Rhodes Spring Turned 100 – 2014
Harry Ell – a Cantab lad, visionary and lover of the Port Hills – had visions of walkers and travellers enjoying a network of scenic reserves along the Port Hills connected by a road with rest-houses along the way – right through to Akaroa. He planned just fewer than 20 rest-houses along what would start …
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The Fire House Nightclub
As the sun set on the era of the Provincial Government, Christchurch – like most of the country’s main cities – must have felt a sudden vacuum as the Christchurch City Council settled itself into its new role. Christchurch that we know today was in 1876, just a land mass with pockets of population, only …
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George Hawkes Whitcombe (1854 – 1917)
George Hawkes Whitcombe (1854 – 1917) Died of old age Place of Death: Christchurch * Co-founder of Whitcombe and Tombs, now known to us as Whitcoulls. George is buried at Linwood Cemetery, Linwood, Christchurch. The story of Whitcoulls: http://www.peelingbackhistory.co.nz/whitcoulls-130-years/ Photo taken by Annette Bulovic
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