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, …
I came across Reuben Davis’ grave at St Mary’s Anglican Church in Halswell one weekend and with all the typical, can’t be explained curiousities that makes us human, I can’t stray from a gravestone that has the words ‘accident’ or ‘killed’ without taking a photo – especially if where they died is also scratched into …
Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort stepped off the Charlotte Jane – full of ambition and cathedral-sized dreams! Born in Birmingham, England, the young Benjamin moved to London and studied architecture. Finishing his studies in 1848, he rolled up his sleeves and practised his new trade right there in London. With Emily, his wife of 18 days, his …
