On 1 April 1869 a court notice appeared in the Christchurch Star, describing an unusual disturbance of the peace. Ten boys aged between seven and thirteen years old were charged with stealing a quantity of explosives fuse from a magazine on Evans Pass, presumably held there for the purpose of road construction. The boys were…
Goodbye Gloucester Street West: The Rink Stables
The first in a series of posts uncovering the history of the city block that the new Christchurch convention centre, Te Pae is being built on. Te Pae, the new Christchurch convention centre is currently under construction and due to open in 2020. At 28,000 square metres Te Pae is going to be a big, curvy…
Christchurch Pride
Christchurch Pride Week is nearly here. The new and updated Pride website is up and the aesthetic is as you'd expect - rainbow hued! The 2019 programme is a smorgasbord of spectacle including several events here at Tūranga, an exclusive film screening of Boy Erased, a Rainbow Market, cabaret, rugby, dance, drag, and dog walking. The…
Friday 22 February 2019 – Earthquake Commemorations
Friday 22 February 2019 is the eighth anniversary of the 2011 quake. There are events to commemorate those we lost; and places where the community can come together to reflect and remember. Memorial Service at the Oi Manawa Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial - Friday 22 February 2019 The eighth anniversary of the February 2011 quake…
Legacy of Chinese food in Christchurch – The Chan Family
Upper Riccarton Library is hosting an exhibition of photos of Chung Wah Restaurant from Saturday 26 January to Friday 8 February. Celebrate the history of an iconic Christchurch restaurant through this special photographic exhibition, and share your fond memories in a sign in book. The Chan Family Mr Toi Yee Chan came to New Zealand from China…
Chung Wah II, the Biggest Chinese Restaurant in New Zealand in 1984 – photographic exhibition 中华大酒楼历史图片展
Upper Riccarton Library will host an exhibition of photos of Chung Wah Restaurant from Saturday 26 January to Friday 8 February. Celebrate the history of an iconic Christchurch restaurant through this special photographic exhibition, and share your fond memories in a sign in book. Chung Wah Restaurant was the biggest Chinese restaurant in New Zealand…
A distinctly dodgy District Health Officer
You know how sometimes you keep coming across someone's name, get a bit curious and poke around a bit further? Well I seemed to keep coming across a Dr Hugh Earnshaw Finch, Christchurch's District Health Officer in the 1900s and 1910s, so I decided to investigate further. I first came across him in a picture…
Christchurch Photo Hunt 2018 – The winners
October 2018 saw the opening of Tūranga, our new Central Library. The Discovery Wall is one of the showcase attractions in the library, and is also where Photo Hunt entries can be found. The images can viewed online, and on the Discovery Wall in Tūranga - as well as at the mobile wall that is…
“I started writing this when I was 17”: An interview with Christchurch writer Jack Hartley
All the other days by new author Jack Hartley is fresh off the printing press, and the book launch is happening at Tūranga on Monday 26 November 6pm. This is a free event and everyone is welcome. This week Jack Hartley filled me in on why he writes Young Adult fiction and what it means…
A fire, a mysterious lady and a singed parrot
Today we know the Ilam Homestead as the University of Canterbury's staff club and for its connections to the Parker-Hulme case, but another house existed on the site and burnt down in 1910. This wooden house was built in the 1850s for the Hon. J. C. Watts Russell, a prominent early settler. It changed hands…
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