Christchurch local history fact files

Brief histories of places, people, houses, streets and suburbs of Christchurch.

• Christchurch Christmas Parades
• Industry:
  • Chicory Industry
  • First Department Store in Hornby
  • Early Industry in Hornby
  • Riccarton Flour Mill
  • Walker Electric Truck
• Snow days
• State Housing
• Sumner World War II Local Defences Trail
• Tī Kōuka Whenua
• The Wizard (Ian Brackenbury Channell)

Local History Resources

An annotated bibliography of published sources on the history of Christchurch, Lyttelton and Banks Peninsula

A brief history of Christchurch City Libraries

• Linwood Public Library
• Lyttelton Library
• The Mechanics’ Institute

Cemeteries of Christchurch

• Addington Cemetery
• Avonside Cemetery
• Barbadoes Street Cemetery
• Burwood Anglican Cemetery
• Linwood Cemetery
• Waimairi Cemetery

North-West Christchurch

• Avonhead
• Bryndwr and Burnside
• Early Riccarton/Fendalton
• Early Transport in North-west Christchurch
• Fendalton Local History Walk
• Fendalton Memories
• Fendalton Park
• Medbury School
• Memorial Avenue
• Riccarton Flour Mill
• Russley Golf Course Air Crash 21 November 1957
• Statues, fountains, memorials, plaques of north-west Christchurch

Fendalton Early Residents

• Oscar Thorwald Johan Alpers 1867-1927
• William Cuddon 1835 - 1924
• Walpole Cheshire Fendall 1830 - 1913
• Richard William Fereday 1820? - 1899
• George Gould 1823 - 1889
• Canon Thomas Albert Hamilton, Vicar of Fendalton 1849 - 1919
• Harry Bell Johnstone
• Ngaio Marsh
• Frederick Maurice Warren
• Elizabeth McCombs 1873 - 1935
• John Charles Watts-Russell 1826 - 1875

Fendalton Houses

• Brenchley: 146 & 150 Fendalton Road
• The Glue brothers’ contribution
• Holly Lea: 123 Fendalton Road
• "Huntley" - 67 Yaldhurst Road
• 46 Memorial Avenue

Hornby & Wigram

• Beginnings
• The Development Phase
• First Department Store
• Early Industry
• Templeton Chicory Industry
• Wigram Air Base
  • Air Force Museum
  • Lady Wigram Trophy

North-East Christchurch

• Aranui Speedway
• Bottle Lake and Waitikiri
• Burwood Hospital
• Burwood Park
• Burwood Public Library
• Dudley Creek
• Early Marshland
• Shirley Methodist Church
• Travis Wetland
• Windsor House

Shirley Early Residents

• Bella Button 1863 - 1921
• Huia Wiremu Beaumont 1901 - 1997
• Eveleyn Charlotte Couzins 1896 - 1945
• James Arthur Flesher 1865 - 1930
• George King 1850 - 1922
• William Henry Robinson 1906 - 1999
• Amelia Frances Rogers 1849 - 1928
• James Rowe 1845 - 1923
• Sarah Elizabeth Tobin 1867 - 1930
• The Rev Cecil Alexander Tobin 1856 - 1938
• Early Residents of Richmond

South Christchurch

• Beckenham
• St Helen’s Hospital