Relief workers, including Frank Renwick, during the 1930's Depression near Jollies Pass crossing the river in a cart pulled by horses and cart crossing a river. Photos are also in The Sugar Bag years...
View of three men working on the construction of a stone retaining wall at Jollies Pass during the 1930's Depression. The photos are also available in The Sugar Bag years by Tony Simpson, 1974.
Fred, Dave and George Hanna rowing on the Avon River in the Botanic Gardens. They all later went to fight during the First World War, George was at Gallipoli.
Edna Jackson, school girl, here with her teacher Miss Eleanor Isherwood, outside the school house at Purau. Miss Isherwood taught at Purau from 1903 -1923. "A teacher decades ahead of her time." -...
"My great-grandfather lived much of his life in New Brighton and had a major hand in the area's advancement. He died in 1924 after being struck by a car... There is a plaque with his name on it...
William (Bill) Penman (right) and friends outside an old hut near Cora Lynn and the Waimakariri River, near Bealey.
"Jack was my Grandad...I only remember him as an old man...to see him on a Harley and looking so young...well, he seems a different person. Is Jack taking his sister for a spin or is this just staged...
"This collection of images of 'Beautiful Christchurch' comes from Great Aunt Mavis's album. The images individually aren't striking...it is the collection of them on the page that speaks a greater...
Horace Waterman (left) and Eunice Waterman travelling in a cart pulled by a horse going through a stream at Oxford, Canterbury.
View of cars travelling along the Bealey Bridge, which crosses the Waimakariri River, during its official opening. "William (Bill) Penman worked on this bridge as a blacksmith and took this photo." -...
Members of the Scottish Society Pipe Band at the Christchurch Pipe Band Contest. The Piper in middle is William (Bill) Penman.
Mrs Myrtle Teague & Betty Teague (age 3) in Christchurch Cathedral Square shopping with crowds of people behind them.
Left to Right from back: P. Bruce, R. Cummings, W. Paterson, A. Eyles, W. Armstrong. Middle row: A. McLachlan (Pipe Major), A. McMillan, R. Syme, M. Smith, R. Murie (Drum Major). Front row: W. Penman...
Canterbury Author and Historian Gordon Ogilvie as a young boy on the Port Hills. His published books record the history of the Port Hills and Banks Peninsula.
"My father Henry Arnold Everard Stark (known as Jim) is holding the sign in the photo. He was a Leading Aircraftsman and served from October 1941 till Jan 1946." - Contributor's note
"My father often regaled us of tales of the many marches between Wigram Air Force base and Harewood. One of these marches took place on the 13th July 1945 the day before the big snow. He is third in...
James Mayo Jnr and James Mayo Snr running new drainage along a residental street, possibly taken from Cashel Street in the East of the city towards the Port Hills, in early 1940 using horse pulled...
View along Cashel Street looking east towards the Bridge of Remembrance during the Anzac Day Parade. In the foreground the Wigram Pipe Band is marching. William (Bill) Penman is the bagpiper at the...
"My mother, Florence Ellen Jarman was in the Air Force based at Wigram, Christchurch. The photo shows her Workshop Maintenance Wing group. She is in the back row, the third from the right." -...
"After meeting...in the Air Force, based at Wigram... in WWII, my parents, Henry Arnold Everard Stark and Florence Ellen Jarman, married at...St Andrew's Church (formerly by the ChCh Public Hospital)...
"This photo is of Dorothy Noldus (nee Merriman) and Gertrude Merriman (nee Wood) her stepmother, outside the Christchurch Cathedral in 1949." - Contributor's note
Gordon Ogilvie (Canterbury Author and Historian) picking apricots with his sister's Helen and Ruth on his parents Max and Margaret's orchard in Horotane Valley.Category Winner: Your People in the 2018...
The Canterbury University College pipe band on capping day. The band marches from Cathedral square down Worcester street whilst Gordon Ogilvie ( far right) keeps time. He was later Band master for St...
View looking across towards the centre of Akaroa and across Childrens Bay and French Bay to Wainui on the other side of the bay.