Snow!

Eleven unidentified women sitting, standing, and playing in the snow in front of the Girls Training Centre (Burwood) building.

View of the Botanic Gardens after snowfall, looking towards the William Sefton Moorhouse statue and Curator's House with Rolleston Avenue behind.

View along Rolleston Avenue and Canterbury College in snow, looking north to the School of Art and intersection with Hereford Street.

A person crossing Colombo Street during heavy snowfall on Colombo Street in Sydenham.

Children with a wheel barrow full of snow throwing snowballs at the camera. From left, Lewis Smith, Chris Mooar and Lyall Smith with two of their friends in the background.

Kim Collier with taxidermied penguins on the Avon River bank in the snow. They normally occupy glass cases at the DSIR (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) Antarctic division.

Scene looking along the Christchurch-Akaroa Road towards the Hilltop Hotel and Tavern, surrounded by snow.

Group of five men with buckets and shovels with a pile of snow on the Cambridge Terrace side of the Antigua Boat Sheds. One man is standing on an approximate 2 metre high snow pile.

View across open ground and rows of trees in Hagley Park under snow.

Christchurch Hospital in snow as viewed from the Avon River.

Cars driving on Riccarton Road in the snow.

Children enjoying the snow at Richmond Primary School Christchurch. Shona Fairburn (centre left) just received a snowball hit by class teacher Miss Finney.

Gilberthorpe cottage on Gilberthorpes Road in the snow.

Snow on trees beside the Avon River on Cambridge Terrace.

A Model T Tourer covered in snow at Coopers Creek in Rangiora.

Group of people having a snowfight at the Heathcote Railway Station in front of stationary train. Snow fell from 12-14 July followed by a gale on 13 July.

Heathcote Valley after snowfall looking onto back of school with maltworks and railway station on the left and Methodist Church in centre.

Cars stuck in snow on Dyers Pass Road in the Cashmere Hills.

Postman, Barney Henderson, delivering mail in the snow.

View from Victoria Park looking across towards Westmorland under a dusting of snow.

"New Brighton beach during the snowy weather of July/August 2011" - Contributor's note

Composite of three images of the big snow of 1918.
1. 60 Aikmans Road, Merivale (with cabbage tree at the front).
2. Fruit trees in the back garden of 60 Aikmans Road, laden with snow.
3. The back...

Aerial view of Christchurch and the Port Hills covered in snow.

View of the central city looking south towards the MFL and Government Life buildings and over to snow on the Sugarloaf and the Port Hills. The temperature gauge on the Government Life building reads 0...

Three children, from left, Natalie Adams, Stephen Barry and Clare McLennan with a snowman on Yaldhurst Road.

A tram on the corner of Armagh Street and Colombo Street in Christchurch with Cook and Ross Chemists on the corner.

View of Linwood Avenue and Hay Street after snowfall.

A dog running along North Beach in the snow.

Snow at North New Brighton Community Centre, 88 Marine Parade.

"A carpet of snow across Sullivan Park on Galbraith Avenue, Avonside. Now in the red zone after the earthquakes." - Contributor's note

Cashmere Hills postie, Wendy Gray, delivering mail in the snow.

Two snowmen wearing hats on a bench.

A snowman family on a bench.

Making a Yogi Bear Snowman in the evening. Mon 22 1976, 7.00pm.

People in snow on the Port Hills at Sugarloaf.

Snow on the ruins of 76 Cashel Street, as seen from Oxford Terrace.

Four children on a toboggan in the snow on the Port Hills, near the Sign of the Kiwi.