“Please help us!!! Mummy is hurt, covered in blood!” Kenneth and Agnes Ritchie didn’t know what to think as two blood-covered teenage girls ran up to them at Victoria Park’s Tea Kiosk from the nearby walkway. Agnes recognised them as just having eaten in the tearooms just minutes earlier. As she led the distressed girls …
Never been afraid to reach out and touch a bit of history :)Cabbage Trees or Ti Kouka have served the peoples of the Canterbury Plains for centuries! They once made great beacons to give a clue to where you were and where you were heading when travelling the vast sea of tussock and flax.For the …
The memorial and reason for the naming of Victoria Park up on the Port Hills. The area was first chosen in 1870 but it took over 10 years before any development such as planting was done. William Moore lived on site by 1886 and was selling refreshments to the visitors venturing around the park. In …
During the late 1820’s, not many European ships sailed into Ōhinehou (Lyttelton Harbour) and those that did carried the rough characters that were the whalers, sealers and merchants. One of these merchant ships was from the Australian firm of Cooper and Levey and its Captain was William B. Rhodes. At the time, the most populated …
On 22 June 1897, Victoria Park opened as part of the celebrations of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The area was first chosen in 1870 but it took over 10 years before any development such as planting was done. William Moore lived on site from 1886 and was selling refreshments to the visitors venturing around the …
