Lady Barker – So Light And Bright

“If the atmosphere were no older than the date of the settlement of the colony, it could not feel more youthful, it is so light and bright, and exhilarating”. Lady Mary Anne Barker ~ March 1866 *Canterbury Diarist, Journalist and Author*

Hopton Napier Broome (1866 -1866)

Hopton Napier Broome (1866 -1866)       Died of illness    Place of Death: Whitecliffs, Canterbury “During the last twelve hours of his life, as I sat before the fire with him on my lap, poor Fredrick kneeling in a prefect agony of grief by my side, my greatest comfort was in looking at the exquisite photograph …