Most Popular in 2025: Canterbury Stories
Discover the most popular collections and images in Canterbury Stories for 2025!
Most viewed images in 2025
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- City nightlife
- Alex Wyllie and his family
- Guy Fawkes at New Brighton Beach
- Bethany Maternity Hospital
- Christchurch Street Names B
- Avebury Park playground
- Wizards
- Christchurch in the Nineties
- Map of the city of Christchurch and suburbs
- Sunnyside Hospital and grounds
- Partially collapsed house on Peterborough Street
- Quesnelia arvensis
- Greta Valley Community Library 20th anniversary
- Hang gliding on the Port Hills
- Morley's Bar and Restaurant
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Most popular collections
Most popular: The Strip collection
A collection of photographs taken by Anthony McKee around 2000 of nightlife on The Strip in Christchurch.
View The Strip collection
2nd: Christchurch streets and places
The Christchurch streets and places resource aims to give the origins of some local street names. This information is available in searchable documents, or through the interactive Christchurch streets map.
Researched by Christchurch City Libraries, the streets information has come from published works, manuscripts, interviews, as well as Christchurch City Council archives.
View Christchurch Streets and Places
3rd: 1970 Christchurch Star negative strips
Images from the Christchurch Star negatives collection, 1970. The negative collection was part of the working photograph library used in the production of the newspaper.
View the 1970 Christchurch Star negative strips
4th: Maps, plans and drawings
One of the popular collections in this group:
Ruru Lawn cemetery plans
Block plans for the Ruru Lawn cemetery showing the plots, and denomination areas. The block plan has plot details, including numbering, dates, names of either purchasers or those interred, and notes and annotations.
5th: Christchurch aerial photomosaics
Three sets of aerial Christchurch aerial photomosaics from the 1920s, 1940s and 1950s of Christchurch and Canterbury areas.
The 1920s aerial photography was taken by the New Zealand Permanent Air Force; later aerials were captured by a company contracted to the Crown, NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd.
Prints were made from the original aerial films; these scans are of the prints and not the original negatives.
View Christchurch aerial photomosaics
