Showing swimming pool and greenhouse built by Neville Holt. The green house was built, then the building permit was applied for retrospectively. Neville Attwood Holt was one of the original founders...
Eon, Neville and Arthur Holt at Holt Family Home. On back of photo: "Our present home & urchins "in undress uniform:"". "Eon has had his hair cut short lately and is so like mother".
Left to right: Unknown, Leonore Glass, Jean kent, Alison Holt, Connie Thompson and Mollie Holt.
Front of the royal train on the 1953 tour by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.
Postcard of the Bridge of Remembrance. Coloured postcard from photograph album.
I grew up in McCormacks Bay. It was a great place for children with the estuary which we swam in, the hills to climb and we were always outside. I remember the fish in the estuary. I remember the...
We called our rented house "Hi-Tide" in 1960. It's a magical house at 2 Moncks Spur, Redcliffs. The house is catilevered out over the point of Moncks Spur above the cave of moa bones on the Main Road...
My grandmother and her friends having fun at their holiday house at Kairaki Beach. Five photos from a photograph album. My grandmother Eva Grace Dutch who married Charles Edwin Featherstone. The main...
My grandparents walking through Christchurch city once my granddad had come back from war.
My grandfather, Leonard Corner is the Fireman on the right. This photo was taken outside the Central Christchurch Fire Station. Leonard later went on to being the Fire Commander of Christchurch until...
The futuristic bus lounge of the old central bus exchange, now demolished after the quakes.
We just came to New Zealand at the end of the last year. We found the best place for us to enjoy always is the Hagley park located in Christchurch city. This is a photograph I have taken when my...
Former Christchurch Police Station with heavenly cover.
This picture was taken during the Surf Comps in the 1970s. The location is the North Ramp car park in New Brighton.
This photo, dated c.1934, shows some district maids of the time lined up for their photo before doing their maypole dance. The location is the grounds of the big house in Mathers Road owned by Mr &...
At about 1885 John & Hannah Mosley left County Durham to make a new life in NZ with their two boys, William and Lancelot. They had a very rough 5 month[week?] journey. Most of it the women & children...
Excelsior Piano Accordion Band. Bought at a market years aged. Could be connected to the Excelsior Tavern? All in a great mood except the lady in black.
Service Car leaving David Crozier's, a well known motor dealership at 49-59 Worcester St. Now the site of the art gallery.
My grandmother and her friends having fun at their holiday house at Kairaki Beach. Five photos from a photograph album.
This is thought by Rangiora historians to be the Rangiora Temperance Group, outside the Rangiora Guild Hall. The date suggested was 1900, but the first version of the silent film "Robbery Under Arms"...
The northwest corner with the start of Chancery Lane under the bright white light. The Tivoli theatre was a huge cinema. The building to the left was laterá the site of the AMP building, and the one...
Repairs to Christchurch Cathedral roof by Briscoes NZ Ltd. Bob Tomes on ridge left holding rope. Unknown holding rope on right. T A Stewart half way down roof.
With my twin at New Brighton - the old pier is in the background.
Debbie Rimmer, 1961. Avon River at end of Pembroke Street, with rowing club at Kerrs Reach - top left hand corner. Locksley Ave on opposite side of the river.