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Postcard Hilltop Hotel: Picturing Canterbury

Postcard of old Hilltop Hotel on Summit Road, Christchurch-Akaroa Highway. Entry in the 2016 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt by Gladys Gurney. Kete Christchurch is a collection of photographs and stories about Christchurch and Canterbury, past and present. Anyone can join and contribute. Visit Kete Christchurch View more Picturing Canterbury posts Do you have any further photographs of the Hill […]

Whalebone Cottage – 704 Ferry Road: Picturing Canterbury

The house, situated on the former route from the Heathcote Ferry to Christchurch, was built in c.1867 for Daniel and Maria Scott. At the time of their occupancy it was known as "The Homestead". However, by the early 1880s it had earned the name, Whalebone Cottage, due to the use of whalebones to form a […]

Invisible Indians – World Anglo-Indian Day: 2 August

Some of the first Indians to settle in Christchurch were Anglo-Indians. They arrived as domestic servants with John Cracroft Wilson in 1854 where they were employed on his estate which later became the suburb of Cashmere. They married into the local populace and some of their descendants still live in the Canterbury region. It was […]

Revathi Performing Arts: Mayuram – Bharatanatyam in Christchurch

Ever wanted to know more about classical Indian dance? Rema and Simon explain some of the philosophy and history behind Bharatanatyam ahead of a performance by local group Revathi Performing Arts. Revathi Performing Arts The purpose of Revathi Performing Arts is to encourage people to know that these dance routines can be practiced as an exercise for body […]

Cathedral Square by Night 1959: Picturing Canterbury

"Cathedral Square by night the northwest corner with the start of Chancery Lane under the bright white light. The Tivoli theatre later became the Westend, a huge cinema (scene of many happy nights out in my teenage years) complete with cat known to sleep on seats at the back. The old building to the left […]

Sumner Gas Works, two views, 1958 and 2010: Picturing Canterbury

View 1958: This is taken from a clay bank, looking down over the Sumner Gasworks on the corner of Wakefield Ave and Truro Street, Sumner. We lived in the stoker's old home showing at the top left of the GasHolder ( which is still there today). Probably a rare view of the Gasworks which really […]

A Good Deed: Picturing Canterbury

"My great grandfather and his wife arrived in New Zealand November 1859 on the Zealandia. Parents told me John Hepworth did a good deed for a Māori chief and was presented with a Huia feather. The feather was in the possession of my father's older brother .. in about 1940 ... [but] the ... family […]

Ōnuku Church, 1940: Picturing Canterbury

Kete Christchurch is a collection of photographs and stories about Christchurch and Canterbury, past and present. Anyone can join and contribute. Visit Kete Christchurch View more Picturing Canterbury posts Do you have any further photographs of Ōnuku Church? If so, feel free to contribute to our collection. Kōrerorero mai - Join the conversation

Winter sports in Canterbury: Mountaineering

The train was already late when it arrived at Arthur’s Pass on the morning of 30 July 1933. On board were members of three different tramping clubs, including those of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club and the Canterbury College University Tramping Club. Undeterred by the bad weather which had already set in, a disorganised mass of […]

Winter in Canterbury: Picturing Canterbury

A selection of winter themed photographs from Kete Christchurch Kete Christchurch is a collection of photographs and stories about Christchurch and Canterbury, past and present. Anyone can join and contribute. Visit Kete Christchurch View more Picturing Canterbury posts Do you have any photographs of winter in Christchurch and Canterbury that you would like to contribute to Kete Christchurch? Kōrerorero mai […]

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