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New Zealand’s Most Beautiful Street 1932
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The Canterbury Ladies’ Slaves
(sticky post) - Steam and Speed, Christchurch’s Railway Station in 1878
- “It’s over!” Armistice Day in Cathedral Square
- “Would to God I had never heard the name of New Zealand”
- 1901 Earthquake – a warning for Greengrocers & ‘Portly Ladies’
- 1908 Holiday Trip to Christchurch, City of the Plains
- A Lady’s Impressions of Christchurch, 1909
- A Poor Joke! A Premonition of What Was Yet to Come.
- A Victorian ‘Gent’ of Christchurch
- Alfred Preece’s Cyclists’ Exchange, Cashel and Colombo Street Corner
- Angel
- Are Historic Buildings Important?
- Australian Pressmen visit ‘Maori Land’, 1912
- Bathing Machines and Indecent Swimming Attire – New Brighton and Sumner Beaches
- Bonnington’s Chemist, High Street
- Book Barons – the Whitcombe & Tomb’s Story
- Botany, Physics Department and Observatory, Canterbury College 1919
- Built with earthquakes in mind – St. Michaels and All the Angels Church c. 1871
- Cafe Continental, Sumner’s Fabulous Edwardian Cafe 1906 – 1909
- Cambridge Terrace, Worcester Street and the Avon River 1910
- Cashel Street looking east, from 1882
- Catholic Basilica – The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
- Christchurch – Dull and as Flat as a Kitchen Table 1880′s
- Christchurch City’s Heart – the Cashel and High Street Intersection
- Christchurch’s First Town Hall, High Street
- Christchurch, New Zealand, revisited
- Cinnamon Cures and Cosmetic Concoctions
- Cobb & Co. Corner of Cashel and High Streets, 1872
- Dalgety’s Building, Cathedral Square 1928
- Day’s Hotel, Sumner c. 1888
- Dead Bodies Stored in Hotel Cellars
- Deutsche Kirche, corner of Worcester and Montreal Streets, 1880
- Domestic Maids and the Curse of the Bloody Handprint
- Down the Avon to New Brighton, 1890 – Notes on a Christchurch Trip
- Down Town from High Street
- Edwardian and Elegant Working Class Sydenham c.1912
- Emma
- Fire Eats Out Best Block of Christchurch 1908
- From Cabstand Corner to Triangle Corner 1884 – 2011
- From Dunstable House to J. Ballantyne & Co. Department Store
- From Hotel to Hospital – St. Helen’s Maternity, Durham Street, Sydenham, 1907
- From Thames to a New Life in Christchurch
- Government Geologist reports on ‘extraordinary earthquake phenomena’
- Hay’s – the friendly store where everything is different
- Holly Lea, McLean’s Mansion, Manchester Street
- Human Bones Under the Public Library
- Iconic Ice-cream Charlie, Cathedral Square
- In Defense of the Christchurch Girl
- Julius von Haast and his milk can seismometer
- Karen
- Lichfield Street, between Colombo and High Streets, 1883
- Mark Twain ‘At Home’ in Christchurch in 1895
- Market Square: swamp, river and raupo in the central city
- Midday on Manchester Street c.1905
- Mrs Merritt’s Boarding House
- New Zealand’s Tallest Building – NZ Express Co. 1905
- Opening of the Boating Season, Avon River
- Quakes Haunt Christchurch Since Settlement Began
- S & H Nashelski’s Melbourne House
- September 1888 – the most destructive earthquake since the Canterbury Pilgrims landed
- St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Kilmore and Manchester Street corner
- Steve
- Strange & Co. Building, corner of Lichfield and High Streets.
- Sumner Tram Excursion
- Telephone Girls, The Telegraph and Post Office, Cathedral Square
- The Bank of New Zealand, corner of Cathedral Square, Hereford and Colombo Street
- The Car Makes its Presence Felt, Cashel Street c. 1920
- The Chief Post Office
- The Clarendon Hotel – from town house to public house fit for Royalty
- The Edwardian Seaside of Sumner c. 1905
- The Government Provincial Buildings
- The Gravenor Building, Corner Manchester & Hereford Streets
- The Royal Exchange, Cathedral Square, 1905
- The Savoy Theatre, Cathedral Square
- The Square and the Disappearing Old World of Christchurch
- The Tepid Bath, Manchester Street, 1908
- Torlesse Building, the first stone structure in Cathedral Square
- Von Sierakowski & Co, Corner of Colombo and Tuam Streets 1906
- William H. Harris, Wholesale Tinsmith, 101 Colombo Street, 1898