Discover The Delights Of Peeling Back History
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Edward William Seager (1828 -1922)
What Edward William Seager lacked in wealth and breeding, he made up with his humanity and love of a good joke! As the young Seager was making his way into his working life as a porter in a London law firm, he learned of the Canterbury Association and their plans from an old school chum, …
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High Street’s Clockmerle
Pictured here in 1904 is not only High Street’s taxi stand but also a clochmere, lantern in all! If you are anything like me, you would have to google the word ‘clochmere’ but by the looks of the photo, you can see it’s a toilet! What a word tho! This photo was taken at the …
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The Oram Brothers
As the five Oram brothers stepped off their ship (the ‘Glentanner’) at Lyttelton, they were the classic example of those chasing the New Zealand dream. It was Canterbury, 1857 and if you were willing to roll up your sleeves and do the hard yards, you could find success and fortune. The English born brothers wanted …
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Charlotte Godley Writes Home
Charlotte Godley, the wife of Canterbury founder John Robert Godley wrote the most delightful letters home to her mother back in England and no one and I mean NO ONE escaped the fury of her pen – good or bad! I have selected the following extracts from her letters cause she shares about places we …
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