C.W. Hunter during his record breaking attempt to play the piano for 50 hours at Shirley shopping centre. Mr Hunter is playing his piano in the window of Taylors Dry Cleaners to raise money for the...
Darts players attempting to break their own record in the Canterbury Darts Club Rooms, Balfour Terrace. They are (clockwise) Gary Finlayson, Sharon Finlayson, Kerry Smith, Steven Watson, Paul Stokes...
Branston Intermediate School students, (from left) Frank Stace, Karl Lineton, and Colin Weavers in their school hall attempting to beat the record for the longest recorded hop scotch marathon.
Cover image for booklet for the City of Christchurch Ladies Highland Pipe Band sponsored march hopefully to Ashburton.   They got as far as Norwood and the blisters would not let them go any further...
Clare Kershaw attempting to eat 100 jelly beans during the Guinness Book of Records, record breaking weekend at QEII Park.
Theo Stewart attempting to eat 100 jelly beans during the Guinness Book of Records, record breaking weekend at QEII Park.
Christchurch Stonemason, John Hill, carrying a sack of coal and walking along Cranford Street during an attempt to break the world long distance coal carrying record. John is accompanied by a piper...
Jenny Turland in a raspberry field during a raspberry picking record attempt at Stanleys Road Farm in Harewood.
Alan Tamplin (left) and Dave Reid taking a break from their part in the trampoline marathon at Burnside High School by playing chess. Keeping the marathon going is Neil Tozer on the trampoline behind...
Soldiers, Keri Ruru (left) and Wattie Cooper shaving during a break from an attempt to break the world record for a continuous pool playing. Jim Brockie and John Taitoko continue to play in the...
B.M. Hands, knitting champion, with daughter Stephanie at their home in Hornby.
Bryan Ellis (left) and Ian Holt, both members of the Pegasus Rotary Club, participating in a record house painting bid at a house on Hei Hei Road.
Wendy Harding and Bill van Peer, both students at Hillmorton High School, attempting to break the world record for non-stop guitar playing and to raise money for Save the Children.
Robin Scanes (left) Martin Jansenns and Ashley Brown on a "Kalamazoo" trolley which they are travelling for 39 hours continuously up and down half a mile of railway track at Ferrymead, between Bridle...
Photos of Hillmorton High School students, Wendy Harding, 16, and Bill van Peer, 17, playing acoustic guitars non-stop for 24 hours to raise money for the Save the Children Fund, and to set a world...