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Cricket at Rakautara

Christchurch families enjoying a break just north of Kaikoura at Rakautara... My dad 'Ron' is the one with the camera. Penny, Sally, John and George play cricket in the background... - Contributor's...

Date unspecified year in 197X
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Former Jade Stadium, Waltham

Jade Stadium, as it was named then, under the shroud of low heavy clouds on a September evening in 2010 - just as the sun was setting between the low cloud and the Southern Alps. Taken from St Andrews...

Date 2010-09-08
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

The Queen during the Royal visit in Cathedral Square

View through crowds of Queen Elizabeth II speaking at the Civic Reception outside the Embassy Theatre in Cathedral Square during the Royal visit to New Zealand.

Date 1953-12 to 1954-01
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

The Bowker Fountain, Victoria Square

Close-up of the Bowker Fountain in Victoria Square lit up at night.

Date 1959 to 1960
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

FEASTA 2018

FEASTA, the street party event of FESTA public festival of architecture, design and food. This exhibit gathered audio clips of food memories and is along Tuam Street opposite the Justice Precinct.

Date 2018-10-20
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Canterbury Museum

This photo shows the Rolleston Avenue frontage and main entrance to Canterbury Museum as it looked in May 1976. The entrance to the Botanic Gardens is at the left hand side. Note the statue of William...

Date 1976-05
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Christchurch Pipe Band Contest

Members of the Scottish Society Pipe Band at the Christchurch Pipe Band Contest. The Piper in middle is William (Bill) Penman.

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Scottish Society Pipe Band, winners of the B Grade Championship

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...

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Wigram Maintenance Team

"""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"

Date unspecified year in 194X
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Marching between Wigram Air Force base and Harewood

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...

Date unspecified year in 194X
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Horse drawn drainage installation

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...

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Anzac Day parade, Wigram Pipe Band

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...

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Wigram Workshop Maintenance Wing group

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. -...

Date 1943-11
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Stark Jarman wedding

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)...

Date 1944-10-14
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Dorothy and Gertrude outside ChristChurch Cathedral

"This photo is of Dorothy Noldus (nee Merriman) and Gertrude Merriman (nee Wood) her stepmother, outside the Christchurch Cathedral in 1949." - Contributor's note

Format Photograph
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Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Picking apricots in the Horotane Valley

Gordon Ogilvie picking apricots with his sister's Helen and Ruth on his parents Max and Margaret's orchard in Horotane Valley.

Date unspecified year in 195X
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Akaroa from above

View looking across towards the centre of Akaroa and across Childrens Bay and French Bay to Wainui on the other side of the bay.

Date unspecified year in 195X
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Camping at Motukarara

View of a family camping at Motukarara near Lake Ellesmere in Canterbury.

Date unspecified year in 195X
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Clarendon Hotel decorated for the Royal visit

Exterior of the Clarendon Hotel on the corner of Worcester Street and Oxford Terrace decorated for the Royal visit to New Zealand.

Date 1953-12 to 1954-01
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Ballantynes decorated for the Royal visit

Ballantynes department store on the corner of Cashel Street and Colombo Street decorated for the Royal visit to New Zealand in 1953-1954 with a garden scene on the roof. A sign above the entrance says...

Date 1953-12 to 1954-01
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

The Queen on the balcony of the Clarendon Hotel during the Royal Visit

View through crowds waving at Queen Elizabeth II on the balcony of the Clarendon Hotel in Cathedral Square during the Royal visit. The crowd stretches from Cathedral Square along Worcester Street and...

Date 1953-12 to 1954-01
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Hay's Department Store decorated for the Royal visit

Exterior of Hay's Department Store on Colombo Street with decorations above the entrance for the Royal visit to New Zealand.

Date 1953-12 to 1954-01
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt