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Bailey family picnic at Stewart's Gully

1948

My nan and grandad with my aunties and my mum at a picnic. Names ...

Wedding at St Peter's Church

1925

Wedding portrait at St Peter's Church in Upper Riccarton.

Alice Grundy watering a trough

1920s

Alice Grundy watering a trough for the cattle on Milton ...

Picnic at Wainoni Park.

1905

Wainoni Park. Mrs. F. Holmes (in striped dress at back) standing ...

Syd Carter’s Barber Shop

Circa 1959

This was my father’s barber shop at the corner of Wilsons Road ...

Wigram Hangars

20 October 2009

Aircraft Hangars, formerly part of RNZAF Base Wigram, now ...

69 Caledonian Road, Christchurch

Circa 1910

Sali Mahomet, Icecream Charlie, built this house in the first ...

Norman Kirk Courts

Circa 1977

This Christchurch City Council housing development, corner of ...

Brougham Street, Sydenham

1970s

On the right are the Norman Kirk Courts on the corner of ...

Riccarton Mill before the business transferred to Addington

Circa 1890

Wood Bros Millng relocated to Addington in 1891 because of the ...

Wood Brothers Flour Mill, Addington

1898

The mill was built in 1861 ready for the 1862 harvest near the ...

Group of female participants in the Golf Club's Easter Tournament

April 1908

The ladies' competitions played on the Shirley Links

General view of Halswell Quarry and a large fall of stone

June 1903

It also supplied rubble and roading material

Cliff face at Halswell Quarry

June 1903

The finely-shaped basalt rock often required work to shape it ...

Plans by architect Fred Barlow for workers' homes in Sydenham

1906

Nine acres had been put aside for these homes to be built in ...

The Sydenham municipal building

June 1903

Those standing in front of the building were officers in the ...

Dam at Wood's Riccarton Mill

Between 1860 and 1899

Dam built for the Riccarton Mill, forming the Mona Vale mill ...

Wood's Riccarton Mill in the snow

1895

The mill was built in 1861 ready for the 1862 harvest near the ...

Wood's Riccarton Mill

1862

The water-powered mill was built by Wood Brothers Ltd in 1861 ...

Halswell Quarry

June 1903

The Quarry was opened circa 1861 by James Feather and James ...

Interior of a cave hut at Taylor's Mistake

January 1910

The cave was known as Hobson's Cave House, or Whare Moki and was ...

Gondola on the Port Hills

Circa 2010

View looking up towards the Gondala on the Port Hills.

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