Bryson and Maysel Mirfin, Ikamatua, taking tea with Ruby Stokes, Omihi. Ruby and Maysel were friends from Training College and bridesmaids at each other's weddings. Photo taken by Stanley Stokes.
Win and Arthur Cumming at their shop on the corner of Cranford Street and Berwick Street, St Albans
Three generations - Alice Todd, Venis Olin & Merle in Cathedral Square in 1937. By the colour of the clothes and they are all wearing gloves it would be a winter photo. Mother and daughter regularly...
Staff, Sunland Bakery Drivers. From Left. 3rd James Davies, 5th Ralph Newlove, From right 2nd Horace Harvey. The vans delivered bread to shops and homes. Home owners left a tin out by their letterbox...
Jim Crofts (middle) and cycling friends. My father.
The Rawleighs Man. My auntie's boyfriend.
Fin and Arthur in uniform, Cathedral Square. Friends of my father.
Alice Grundy & family at Cave Rock, Sumner.
Albert Grundy & family outside their shop in Selwyn St, Spreydon.
Margosue Penney & David Penney in Hagley Park.
Left - right: Mary Morse (my aunty, mum's youngest sister) an unknown friend Sydney??, Mary's best friend all at Addington races. Maybe cup day as they are all in their best clothes. Late 1930s...
Plunket Society procession in Sumner 1937. Wolseley car in front is mayoral car in front with mayor of Sumner Thomas Newburgh and Eleanor Newburgh (plaque under tree at Scarborough Reserve). Float in...
This event was in Thorpes paddock, Gayhurst Rd, Dallington about 1935. I can remember seeing his gear lying on the ground. It was depression years & I understand that not many paid to get in but a lot...
Harris & Sons Butchers. 789 Colombo Street, near Kilmore Street. 1930 Ford Model A, Butchers van.
One of my mothers brothers during the Depression. The family lived at what was the end of Butler Street in Opawa where they rented some land. There was enough room for a few cows which the boys had to...
My grandmother and grandfather with one of the cows they had for milking, on the bit of land they rented out at the end of Butler Street, in Opawa. They had cows, chickens and a big vege garden and my...
Junior pupils enjoying the snow at Richmond Primary School Christchurch, winter 1938 or 1939. School building in background. Shona Fairburn (centre left) just received a snowball hit. by class teacher...
Centaurus Flying Boat pays a visit to the Port of Lyttelton in 1938 much to the interest of the Christchurch Public who went over the hill to have a look.
This is Otto Gustav Rosenau and small Gordon Ogilvie. Christchurch author) Gordon is a small boy on the families orchard in Horotane valley. This photo depicts an encounter with someone who had...
Cathedral Square looking east from Worcester St bridge; Avon Cinema under construction on right.
Traction engine photo - used for house shifting by the Gurdler family. 1920/30
My Aunty Doris who used to help her husband "The Great Beynon" magician on Hay's Roof.
A friend of the Crofts family and motorbike.
Veda Crofts holding Mervyn Crofts (2 yrs old), and two friends. My mother and brother.