Discover The Delights Of Peeling Back History
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How Our City Streets Got Their Names
The wind whipped waving tussock of the Canterbury Plains can’t have made the surveyor’s job very easy. I can’t say whether the surveyors pushed their pegs into the ground by the use of tools or whether they just crouched down amongst the flaxy marsh and pushed them in by hand.Whatever happened, Edward Jollie and his …
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ELMWOOD & MARSHLANDS – Robert Heaton Rhodes (1815 – 1884)
Robert Heaton Rhodes (1815 – 1884) arrived in Lyttelton just before the first four ships in 1850. Two of his brothers had already settled in New Zealand and were doing very well – William was in Wellington and George was in Purau on Banks Peninsula. Robert settles down at Purau with George and the two …
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Clydesdale Team
A plough team of Clydesdales at Longbeach 1907. *image courtesy of Rural Livestock Ltd Canterbury*
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Shearers At Work
Hand shearers working at Riverside, Amberley around the year 1920. *Image courtesy of Rural Livestock Ltd Canterbury*
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