Purau school, Banks Peninsula

"The Main School", Pigeon Bay

1916

Area: Banks Peninsula / Banks Peninsula Eastern Bays

Source: Kete Christchurch

Reference ID: CCL-Kete-JaSh-1005

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Edna Jackson with her teacher Miss Eleanor Isherwood outside Purau school house

1915

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." - Contributor's note

Area: Banks Peninsula / Diamond Harbour

Contributor: Anne Ogilvie

Source: Entry in the 2018 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt

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Reference ID: CCL-PH18-AnOg-07

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Purau school, Banks Peninsula

1907

"This is a photo of the first 6 scholars at Purau school in 1907 the children are from the Jackson family and the Gardiner family. My grandmother Edna Jackson with blonde hair is third from left. They were taught by Miss Eleanor Isherwood whose mother Susanna had been on the Canterbury Womans Institute with Kate Shepperd) Eleanor was a brilliant teacher, Purau was an isolated community my mother Elisabeth Ogilvie wrote the little book. " Purau" I love this photo of early education in a rural community on Banks Peninsula." - Contributor's note

Area: Banks Peninsula / Diamond Harbour

Source: Entry in the 2018 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt

Reference ID: CCL-PH18-AnOg-01

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At school on Banks Peninsula

At school on Banks Peninsula

At school on Banks Peninsula

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