Little Hagley Park

The Ngai Tahu and those before them thought nothing of walking from their Pa at Rapaki (a bay of Lyttelton Harbour) to the northern stronghold of Kaikai-a-waro, the area now known to us as Kaiapoi.  Of course, they knew the quickest routes, their tracks through the marshlands and over the Peninsula resembling an over-land rabbit …

MERIVALE – John Studholme (1829 – 1903)

The history of Merivale or should I say Merevale, isn’t a clear one. There are 3 tales that compete to be fact, all quite different but I was glad to find out that 2 of these stories had a place where they met and this is how maybe the confusion happened. Charlotte Jackson arrived in …