Miss P. Stokes, traffic officer, checking the driver's licence of a man sitting in a car. 12 August 1967. Do you have any photographs of Christchurch in the 1960s? If so, feel free to contribute to our collection. The Discovery Wall is a large interactive exhibition which allows several people to simultaneously explore images and stories of the history of the…
Changing the tyre: Christchurch Photo Hunt 2018
October is Photo Hunt month at Christchurch City Libraries. We invite you to share any of your photos and help grow the city's photographic archive. All entries must be received by 31 October. Christchurch City Libraries has produced a set of four postcards promoting the competition which are available from your local library. Each week during…
Christchurch to Lyttelton suburban Ec electric locomotive undergoing maintenance in the Addington Workshops: Picturing Canterbury
Christchurch to Lyttelton suburban Ec electric locomotive undergoing maintenance in the Addington Workshops [ca. 1960]. Built between 1879-1880, the Addington railway workshops replaced an earlier railway workshop (the first in New Zealand) and continued to operate until December 1990. The New Zealand EC class locomotive was designed by English Electric in 1928 to serve the…
A glimpse of libraries past
As we move ever closer to the opening of Tūranga, it can be interesting to reflect and look back on how far libraries have come in the last few decades. Looking at our fabulous digital collections I hit a fascinating and poignant vein of images of Christchurch libraries past. Particularly poignant is this image of…
Love, loss, and Las Vegas glitter: All the beautiful girls
Fresh out of the box this week is All the Beautiful Girls. This great story is the second novel from Elizabeth J. Church, author of The Atomic Weight of Love. Lily Dekker has had a difficult start to life. Wrenched from idyllic surroundings by a cataclysmic car crash, her family "dissolve(d) like sugar in iced tea". She…
Kennedy Assassinated! What were you doing on 23 November 1963?
By the time The Christchurch Star was published on the afternoon of Saturday 23 November 1963, it would have been hard to find someone in Christchurch who had not already heard that the President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been assassinated earlier that morning (7:00am New Zealand time). But when the initial…
Peacock at New Brighton Zoo: Picturing Canterbury
Peacock at New Brighton Zoo. January 1965. The North Brighton Zoo started as an aquarium, possibly as early as the 1880s and became a mini zoo, run by Bill Grey, in the late 1940s. It closed in 1996. Date: 1965. Entry in the 2013 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt. Kete Christchurch is a collection of photographs…
Cool stuff from the Selectors: from the 1960s to pink cakes and beyond…
Caves : exploring New Zealand’s subterranean wilderness by Marcus Thomas The idea of venturing into a cave leaves me with clammy hands, thankfully I can now enjoy the beauty and danger of caving without having to get my feet wet. This book takes readers on a journey into New Zealand's longest and deepest caves, through…
Miss Treadway & the Field of Stars
In the hunt for Iolanthe Green, Anna Treadway takes you through a simpler time in many ways, with a notable absence of all the technology and urgency that dominates our existence today. This is what I found quite charming about the book – stepping into a time where you seemed to survive on tea and…
Photo Hunt October: Marshall Family Swimming, 1960s
"Coe's Ford. Swimming in the river-Sally on Dad's (Bruce) back. Lynne on the Lilo. Family picnic day." Date: Circa 1960. This image is available as a free postcard as part of our Christchurch Photo Hunt promotion. Christchurch City Libraries has been running an annual Photo Hunt in conjunction with the city’s Heritage Week since 2008…
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