Captain Anthony Wilding was the first and - so far - the only New Zealander to win a Wimbledon championship. His record in the International Tennis Hall of Fame reads: Career Achievements Top Ranking World No. 1 (1911) Grand Slam Results 11-time major champion and 4-time finalist Olympics Bronze Medal in Men’s Indoor Singles at the…
The Bridge of Remembrance to reopen
It's been a bit of a wait, but - fingers crossed ! - soon we will be able to stand on the Bridge of Remembrance again. Of course, the surrounds don't quite look like the photo above anymore. The repairs, painstakingly carried out by SCIRT, to the Bridge and Arch were completed in September 2015…
First National Council of Women, Christchurch, 1896
Looking at this photo makes me very grateful that I wasn't born any earlier - these Victorian clothes look so hot, so uncomfortable, and as for those fussy caps! Ugh! But what these women are wearing is about the least important part of the photograph - this is the first National Council of Women, meeting…
Armageddon is coming!
Woohoo ! I'm so looking forward to going! Despite having lived in Christchurch for six years now, somehow I've never quite made it to Armageddon Expo, the annual celebration for pop culture geeks: always something else to do, somewhere to go, or something else to pay for... But this year it falls on my birthday, so…
You are free and strong. Go forward and lead on.
You are in front! Behind you are all the women in the world and all the children! Keep moving forward. Do not stop to blame those who are behind. Remember that they are weighted with what remains of all the shackles of all the women of the past; they cannot step forth free. But you…
18 November 1947 – The Ballantyne’s Department Store fire
18 November 2015 marks the 68th anniversary of New Zealand’s most deadly fire - The Ballantyne’s Department Store fire - it's a date permanently etched in the collective New Zealand psyche. On the afternoon of Tuesday 18 November, 1947, Ballantynes Department Store was full of shoppers - Show Week had taken place the previous week and the…
Memorial Entrance Gates, Lancaster Park
Lancaster Park was opened with an Athletics meeting on 15 October 1881, the land for the ground having been bought by The Canterbury Cricket and Athletics Sports Club Ltd from Benjamin Lancaster. For the next 30-plus years much hard work went into developing facilities for the different sporting codes - athletics, cricket, cycling, rugby football, tennis, even swimming…
“You tell lies to get close to the truth” – Joe Bennett
'Twas a damp and misty Christchurch evening, supposedly Spring but feeling more like Winter, when a gathering of Christchurch people came to a WORD Christchurch event to hear celebrated columnist and author Joe Bennett talk about his new book - King Rich. Despite nearly giving up partway through, Joe was persuaded by his publisher to…
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