Kaye Neely from Miramar Wellington, departing at Christchurch Airport with an NAC air hostess. Kaye had come down for a holiday with her older cousins. As she was only four at the time she’d had to tell a “little white lie” saying she was five (the minimum age to travel unaccompanied. She was beautifully dressed in the…
Punker than Punk … Rock’s Backpages
An exploration of the new music resource Rock's Backpages, available free to you through Christchurch City Libraries: "Underrated" is a term that is widely and oftentimes overused when talking about music and rightly so, it's a passionate subject! When I think of "underrated", in terms of music at least, I think of The Saints - a…
Snowfall on Riccarton Road : Picturing Canterbury
Kete Christchurch is a collection of photographs and stories about Christchurch and Canterbury, past and present. Anyone can join and contribute.n and contribute. View more Picturing Canterbury posts. Visit Kete Christchurch Kōrerorero mai - Join the conversation…
How NOT to build a bomb shelter
In 2011, author Leonie Thorpe told us her memories of building a bomb shelter in Lyttelton: I’m not sure whether nuclear weapons were on the curriculum of every New Zealand primary school in 1979, but they were at Lyttelton Main. Someone wanted to blow up the world with an H bomb, and our little township…
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