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Christchurch stands Tall giraffe - Worcester bridge

7 November 2014

Christchurch Stands Tall orange giraffe known as Raise

Bishop Victoria Matthews and Shigeru Ban

27 August 2014

Shigeru Ban Cardboard Cathedral session, WORD Christchurch ...

Christchurch stands tall giraffe - Colombo Street

10 November 2014

Silver Christchurch Stands Tall giraffe named Rifraff Giraffe

A view of Cathedral Square before the Government Buildings were erected

1910

Until the early 1900s tram sheds and offices occupied much of ...

WORD Christchurch art by CPIT students

22 August 2014

WORD Christchurch art by Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of ...

Life classes at the Christchurch School of Art

1910

The School had a roll of about 400 students

Modelling class at the Christchurch School of Art

1910

The School had a roll of about 400 students

The Montessori system in operation at the Sunbeam Kindergarten at St Albans

1915

Children attended here from three to five years of age. The ...

A Highways Transport Leyland truck carrying a load of petrol in 44 gallon drums

circa 1930

Prior to this, petrol was supplied in ten gallon tins and ...

Girls in a small workroom engaged on assembly work

Early 1940s

By 1947 there were some 35,000 women working in New Zealand ...

The Bicycle Band

Circa 1900

Christchurch's Bicycle Band claimed to be the only one of its ...

Many girls in mass-production factories work on moving belts

Early 1940s

These girls are packing biscuits

During the war, girls were engaged on a wide range of jobs

This young woman is servicing the engine of a Gypsy Major ...

Wartime milk delivery, corner Alpha Avenue and Normans Road, Bryndwr, Christchurch

1942

In 1942 petrol rationing came into force and milk was delivered ...

Munitions jobs were often monotonous

Early 1940s

Small factories making munitions of various kinds were spread ...

Appeal for free kindergartens

7 October 1936

A well-stocked flower stall in Cathedral Square when the ...

Women's Land Army plots, Abberley Park, St Albans

1942

Vegetable crops were grown at the experimental section farmed at ...

A classroom at Fendalton Open-Air School, Clyde Road, Christchurch

1928

By the 1920s most parents were being guided by the Plunket ...

Cathedral Square, Christchurch

1900s

Electric trams had been introduced and the hansom cabs were ...

A returned soldier in a motorcycle sidecar taking food to patients during the 1918 influenza epidemic

1918

"An epidemic of influenza has been raging throughout New Zealand ...

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