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Clarendon Hotel decorated for the Royal visit

December 1953 - January 1954

Exterior of the Clarendon Hotel on the corner of Worcester ...

Ballantynes decorated for the Royal visit

December 1953 - January 1954

Ballantynes department store on the corner of Cashel Street and ...

The Canterbury University College pipe band on capping day

Circa 1954

The Canterbury University College pipe band on capping day. The ...

Akaroa from above

1950s

View looking across towards the centre of Akaroa and across ...

Anzac Day parade, Wigram Pipe Band

1940

View along Cashel Street looking east towards the Bridge of ...

Mrs Myrtle Teague & her daughter Betty Teague in Cathedral Square

1939

Mrs Myrtle Teague & Betty Teague (age 3) in Christchurch ...

Horse drawn drainage installation

1940

James Mayo Jnr and James Mayo Snr running new drainage along a ...

Gordon Ogilvie on the Port Hills

1940s

Canterbury Author and Historian Gordon Ogilvie as a young boy on ...

Official opening of the Bealey Bridge in Canterbury

1936

View of cars travelling along the Bealey Bridge, which crosses ...

Christchurch Pipe Band Contest

1938

Members of the Scottish Society Pipe Band at the Christchurch ...

Scottish Society Pipe Band, winners of the B Grade Championship

1939

Group shot of the Scottish Society Pipe Band, winners of the B ...

Mavis Suckling and Cyril

Circa 1930

"Initially, I thought this photo was of my grandad Cyril with ...

Horace and Eunice Waterman, Oxford, Canterbury

1930s

Horace Waterman (left) and Eunice Waterman travelling in a cart ...

George Thomas Hawker from New Brighton, known as 'The Father of New Brighton'

June 1920

George Thomas Hawker from New Brighton, known as 'The Father of ...

Rowing on the Avon River in the Botanic Gardens

1904

Fred, Dave and George Hanna rowing on the Avon River in the ...

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

1915

Edna Jackson, school girl, here with her teacher Miss Eleanor ...

Hut near Cora Lynn and the Waimakariri River, near Bealey

1920s

William (Bill) Penman (right) and friends outside an old hut ...

Huge turnout at Botanic D'Lights

10 August 2018

Huge queues waiting to get into the Botanic D'Lights exhibition ...

Little shag at sunset

14 July 2018

A little shag dries its wings at sunset after fishing along the ...

Empty foundations on Cashel Street

9 July 2018

Empty foundations of a former building on Cashel Street ...

Stay sculpture at Christchurch Arts Centre

1 July 2018

A toddler greets the Stay sculpture by Anthony Gormley in the ...

Atlas Voices at the rebuilt Knox Church

27 May 2018

Atlas Voices holds a choral performance at the rebuilt Knox ...

Walking at Godley Head

25 April 2014

A father and child walk along the Godley Head track on Anzac ...

Riding behind a traction engine at the Steam Extravaganza

15 April 2018

A group of people going for a ride on a wagon drawn by a ...

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