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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
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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.

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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...

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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
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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
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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...

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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...

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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
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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
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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

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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
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Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Camping at Motukarara

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

Date unspecified year in 195X
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Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Elephant float preparing for the Hay's Christmas Parade

A large elephant float on wheels being pushed by a group of children in Hagley Park in preparation for the Hay's Christmas Parade. Behind it is a giraffe float also heading towards the parade.

Date 1956-12-08
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Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Train float for the Hay's Christmas Parade

A train float with a santa sleigh and reindeer float being admired by families in Hagley Park ahead of the Hay's Christmas Parade through the central city.

Date 1956-12-08
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Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Kathleen and Amanda at Sumner Beach

Kathleen Henderson and daughter Amanda enjoying Sumner Beach. At this time they were living in Fiji. This photo would have been taken on a rare trip home to Christchurch, probably during the Christmas...

Date 1957 to 1958
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Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

A joy-ride on Lake Ida

A vintage car taking a sled of children for a joy-ride across the frozen Lake Ida. Groups of people are ice skating in the background.

Date 1957-07-28
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Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Day at the Beach, New Brighton

A family stood on New Brighton Beach with the New Brighton War Memorial behind them. "Day at the Beach. My family at New Brighton Beach in the 1950's" - Contributor's note

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Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

The excitement of sparklers on Guy Fawkes night

Two children playing with sparklers on Guy Fawkes night.

Date 1959 to 1960
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Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Hay's Christmas Parade float

Crowds lining a residential street during the Hay's Christmas Parade watching a drummer float being driven past.

Date 1959-12-05
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Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Ice skating on Lake Lyndon

A family stood on Lake Lyndon, near Castle Hill, with groups of people ice skating in the background with views across to snow covered mountaints. "In the days when the whole of Lake Lyndon would...

Date 1959-08-02
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Collection 2018 Photo Hunt