Discover The Delights Of Peeling Back History
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Edmund Spencer (1828 – 1911)
Edmund Spencer (1828 – 1911) Died of old age Place of Death: Christchurch * Owner of Spencerville Farm – now the suburb of Spencerville * Founder of Spencerville School, now known as Belfast Primary School * Member of the Waimairi County Council Buried at St Paul’s Anglican Church, Papanui, Christchurch. The story …
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The A & P Show
As Christchurch approached its 2nd birthday, there was a mixture of emotions on the city’s dusty roads. Since the arrival of the First Four Ships, another 21 Canterbury Association ships had docked at Port Lyttelton and more than 2500 settlers had flooded into Canterbury. Like those before them, the lies of the Canterbury Association were …
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Pyne Gould Corporation
“On the east side of Market Place stood Mr. Gould’s General Store with a great barrier in the middle of the floor filled with fascinating coils of rope-like tobacco – fascinating because we thought it was good to having (having I suppose watched sailors and Maoris chewing lumps) till an experimentalising younger brother nearly put …
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Conway Lucas Rose – Cathedral is a work of the imagination
“The Cathedral is a work of the imagination only…my bull is tethered in the nave.” Conway Lucas Rose ~ May 1852 * Passenger of the ‘Midlothian’ – the Canterbury Association’s 15th ship * Co-Founder of The Church of New Zealand – was a licensed clergyman * First manager of the Union Bank of Australia situated …
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