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
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 of a family camping at Motukarara near Lake Ellesmere in Canterbury.
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.
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.
Close-up of the Humpty Dumpty float in Hagley Park ahead of the Hay's Christmas Parade through the central city.
"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...
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.
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
Portrait of the DIC department store Father Christmas (Arthur Sutherland) with Cathy Hall and Ray Morris.
Two children playing with sparklers on Guy Fawkes night.
Crowds lining a residential street during the Hay's Christmas Parade watching a drummer float being driven past.
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...
Group photograph of soilders during their training at Burnham Military Camp. Frank Tobbell is on the top row, left side.
"My sister and a neighbourhood friend rather well-dressed for mowing...our father had put his heart and soul into producing a wonderful lawn... His efforts paid off and gave us many happy years of...
Max Ogilvie aboard his veteran Caterpillar tractor as family and pickers pose alongside the last load of apricots to be sledged to the packing shed in the Horotane valley, in the Heathcote Valley. In...
"My mother at Akaroa beach - before the housing boom." - Contributor's note
"McManus/Byrne family stop for picnic on the side of the road at the entrance to Akaroa." - Contributor's note
"... In our family photo albums there are many photos of various gatherings with the families of my parents' friends... In these family friends we found other kids of a similar age we could play with...
Group photograph of family and friends on holiday at Rakautara. "In this photo the camera is set to self timer on top of the bonnet of the car. But the camera begins to slide off as the photo is about...
"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...