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Children wearing WWII helmets

Malcolm Hubert, Gerald Williamson, Ron Bertenshaw, John Hawkins, Joe [unknown], and Gordon Roberts wearing WWII helmets in North Beach.

Date 1943 to 1944
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Resource Type Image
Collection 2008 Photo Hunt

Majestic Dance Band

The Majestic Dance Band, Jimmy Olin (saxophone), Lottie Duckworth (pianist), Neill Bamford (drummer), and Tom French (double bass), at the Mayfair Lounge on Worcester Street.

Date unspecified year in 195X
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2008 Photo Hunt

Greetings from NZEF in the Pacific

Illustration on this Christmas and New Year greeting postcard, 1943-1944, depicts a soldier of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in jungle uniform worn in the Pacific area. The postcard was issued...

Date 1943
Format Postcard
Resource Type Image
Collection 2009 Photo Hunt

Greetings from NZEF in the Pacific message

The reverse of a Christmas and New Year greeting postcard, 1943-1944, shows a message home from Sgt. Reginald (Reg) Sydney O'Neill of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to his wife Anita....

Date 1943
Format Postcard
Resource Type Image
Collection 2009 Photo Hunt

Fast foot forward

My mother going to her wedding on a very wet day at St. John's Anglican Church, Latimer Square. The rain was so hard it obliterated the trees in the background. Both bride and her father were moving...

Format Photograph
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Collection

Lyttelton 1955

Founder of Oderings nursery on the left, Graham on the right. Date:5.File reference:

Format Photograph
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Collection

Victoria Square by Night

Victoria Square by night, with statue of Queen Victoria. Looking at the Armagh Street frontage of Hay's department store that evolved into Farmers, then was later demolished for an apartment building...

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2016 Photo Hunt

Majestic Dance Band

Jimmy Olin (Leader on saxophone), Lottie Duckworth (pianist), Neill Bamford (drummer), Tom French (double bass) at the Mayfair Lounge, Worcester Street. This venue had the only white grand piano in...

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2008 Photo Hunt

Nurses with an automobile

Postcard showing two nurses posing next to a decorated automobile in an unidentified location.

Date unspecified year in 191X (year uncertain; year approximate)
Format Postcard
Resource Type Image
Collection 2009 Photo Hunt

Waiting for Moira, 1958

Corner of Harewood Road and Restell St by Papanui Railway Station. This shot shows four little brothers ?A_B_C_D? (Anthony, Brian, Chris, Douglas) waiting for their beloved Auntie Moira to arrive by...

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2014 Photo Hunt

The corner of Rossall and Rhodes Streets in 1925

The corner of Rossall and Rhodes Streets looking south east. Taken by Charles John Beken, who built in 1909 and lived in the house at right with tiled roof & a two-storeyed workshop to the left that...

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2015 Photo Hunt

Summer Sunday outings at the Waimakariri River

Summer Sunday outing at the Waimakariri River. Bob, ?, Ruby, Venis, Jim with the dinghy on the river. Jim is holding the anchor. About 1932.

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2014 Photo Hunt

Holidays in the caravan

Winning entry for a collection in the 2015 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt .

Date unspecified year in 195X
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2015 Photo Hunt

Going on holiday to Hanmer

A holiday to Hanmer Springs with our grandmother and her friend.

Date unspecified year in 196X
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2015 Photo Hunt

Changing the tyre

Changing a flat tyre on the way to Hanmer Springs on holiday with our grandmother Lillian Marker [on right] and a friend.

Date unspecified year in 196X
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2015 Photo Hunt

Doris Goulding from Hornby with her two children and three nieces outside the Regent Café in Cathedral Square

From left: Maureen Goulding and Helen Fawdray; Kathleen Goulding and Patricia & Janet Finnie. These photos are of my mother Doris Goulding, my older sister Maureen and my three cousins Helen, Patricia...

Format Photograph
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Collection 2015 Photo Hunt

The Winsor family bach, Fleming Street, North Beach

One of the many holiday homes built by W. H. Winsor along the foreshore between New Brighton and Waimairi Beach. The family - 3 daughters and various "hangers on" would catch the tram to New Brighton...

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2014 Photo Hunt