Items in 2016 Photo Hunt

Waitaki Girls' HIgh, Oamaru boarders. Connie Thompson, my mother, middle row, far right.

This photo was taken in the late 1930's and is my Dad, Bob Gilroy and my Mum, Mary Gilroy and my Grandmother Marion Brown. They were spending the day at Brighton Beach.

The Brooks family with leis and toffee apples at the Canterbury Centenary Exhibition in Hagley Park in 1950.

Ethel Agnes Allridge on the back of her boyfriend, Ernest Leicester Frampton's Ariel motorbike. Bubs worked as a housekepper at the Amberley Hostel. Leicester was farming at Oxford. They married in...

Courting days for Ethel Agnes Alldridge and Ernest Leicester Frampton in North Canterbury. Note the lacey curtains and roller blinds in the windows.

The futuristic bus lounge of the old central bus exchange, now demolished after the quakes.

Family camping at Hanmer River, Christmas/New Year 1958. Annual event with often three generations present.

Service Car leaving David Crozier's, a well known motor dealership at 49-59 Worcester St. Now the site of the art gallery.

Castle Rock was especially beautiful when the clouds pushed over the hill into Heathcote Valley. It was a magical place to walk with the children.

The northwest corner with the start of Chancery Lane under the bright white light. The Tivoli theatre was a huge cinema. The building to the left was later the site of the AMP building, and the one to...

Left: Jack Foster; right- his cousin Ernest Symonds. Taken at Opawa fish ponds 105 Clarendon Terrace, Opawa.

This plaque is on the Colombo Street side of Victoria Square [origianlly called Market Square] between the red phone box and a post box.. The Chisnall and Wood families farmed the Sandhill Run that...

Christchurch Floral Festival float. Photographer Elmar Studios.

Christchurch Police Station with heavenly cover.

Christchurch Teachers' Training College Sports Day. Note the rompers!

Brother and sister, Claude and Maude Thompson. Although her first name was Maude she was always known as Connie.

Claude, Wilby & Connie Thompson

This photo is the locals starting clearing grounds for South Brighton School, 1940.

Written on back of photo: "Colleen Chisnall and me at Hinds".

Connie Thompson (my mother) at Waitaki Girls' High School. Although her first name was Maude, she was always known as Connie.

Connie Thompson and her son, Richard. Richard died at 18 months from spinal meningitis.

'My mother, Connie Thompson cutting the cake at the 1991 Waitaki Girls' High School Reunion.'

Corsair Bay around 1930.