"Sarah Thomas (nee Millward) Born England 1834, died 1904. My great great grandparents came to New Zealand on the ship Mary Anne arriving 4 August 1859. Sarah must have walked the Bridle Path in those...
"Charles Thomas. Born England 1832, died suddenly at work in 1889. My great great grandparents came to New Zealand on the ship Mary Anne arriving 4 August 1859." - Contributor's note
A man and a woman sat on a cart attached up to a horse on a farm. "Mode of transport because of petrol restrictions." - Contributor's note
Margaret Cunneen aged 8 years on the grounds of Mount Magdala on Halswell Road, ran by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. The self-contained community was part of an international movement to support...
"My grandfather Percy Vernon Bailey who won first prize in a ploughing match held at Lincoln." - Contributor's note
"My uncle Orton Bailey, 14 years old, driving. He won 3rd prize at the Lincoln ploughing match" - Contributor's note
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." -...
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...
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
Group photograph of soilders during their training at Burnham Military Camp. Frank Tobbell is on the top row, left side.
My parents bought their first home in Grange Street, Opawa in 1953. They were great gardeners. The patch of potatoes (above my mother's back) was grown prior to the planting of a lawn. Fence palings...
Harry Smith sat with his horse and cart at the Christchurch Show where he won second prize. Harry Smith did deliveries with his horse and cart from town to Sign of the Bellbird and Harry Ell farm.
A group of cousins sat on Cave Rock at Sumner near the beach during the summer.
Mrs Myrtle Teague & Betty Teague (age 3) in Christchurch Cathedral Square shopping with crowds of people behind them.
"This photo is of Dorothy Noldus (nee Merriman) and Gertrude Merriman (nee Wood) her stepmother, outside the Christchurch Cathedral in 1949." - Contributor's note
Portrait of the DIC department store Father Christmas (Arthur Sutherland) with Cathy Hall and Ray Morris.
View along the Avon River in Hagley Park of an Antigua Boatsheds rented boat with Susan and her dad rowing.
"A friend's wedding in the Anglican ChristChurch Cathedral after the first large earthquake. Before the devastating one. Louise Lockie bridesmaid. Louise's son Hamish Brookes-Lockie pageboy." -...
"My grandfather William Duncan was a piper in the Waimate Pipe Band and I believe he is one of the pipers... There were three pipe bands (Dunedin, Ashburton and Waimate) at the Exhibition and they...
To the left of the photo are the Fallout Follies - an anti-nuclear street theatre group, part of the Black Dragon Clowns. They had just finished performing. From left Marian Lyftogt (now Joy Harland)...
The Merrie-Midgets were a puppet show hand-crafted, built and performed by the Comfort family of Christchurch.The Merrie-Midgets' puppeteers, from left, Ivan Comfort, Dulcie Comfort and Alison Comfort...
"Portrait of Craig Jones (Spike), speedway racer. ""My mother and myself biked from Beckenham to Rowen Ave, Aranui, each Saturday night, I was a real fan of the speedway."" - Contributor's note"
Queen Elizabeth II being escorted on a public walk in Christchurch.
"Portrait of Norm Parker, speedway racer. ""My mother and myself biked from Beckenham to Rowen Ave, Aranui, each Saturday night, I was a real fan of the speedway."" - Contributor's note"