Who doesn’t love a good sale? The opening sale for the Christchurch branch of Schneideman and Sons Ltd 0n 27th November 1923. Schneideman and Sons were a firm of manufacturing tailors, with their head office in Wellington. This business was…
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A group of adults and children in period costume during a re-enactment celebrating the centennial of the arrival of the first four ships in Lyttelton Harbour, and the landing of the passengers on shore, December 1950. Canterbury is a Hundred…
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On August 14 1868 at 10:15 am (Chatham Islands local date and time), a large-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Arica, near the Chile-Peru border. The earthquake generated a large tsunami that was observed throughout the Pacific region. As…
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The house built for John Robert Godley, his wife Charlotte and their son, ‘little Arthur’, in Lyttelton, in 1850. Godley was Agent General for the Canterbury Association and a sort of ‘Governor’ for the first two years of the Canterbury…
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John Robert Godley died in London in 1861, at the age of 47. This photo of his son, Arthur (the ‘Little Arthur of Lyttelton’ a decade before) was taken in the same year and this photo of Godley’s wife, Charlotte,…
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We come now to a time of anticipation and intense interest for all, viz., the advent of the “Canterbury Pilgrims.” We may surely designate by the name of “Pilgrim Fathers” those few who braved the untried country, and by their…
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The Canterbury Association was formed in 1848 in England by members of parliament, peers, and Anglican church leaders, to establish a colony in New Zealand. The settlement was to be called Canterbury, with its capital to be known as Christchurch….
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‘Margaret en Maori’, Charlotte and John Robert Godley’s 5th and youngest child Margaret Godley, in ‘A study of a Maori Lady in traditional dress’. The watercolour is painted in 1863 by Charlotte’s favourite sister, Frances, the recipient of some of…
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NEW ZEALAND at last! The Charlotte Jane, 95 days out from England, 5 days short of Canterbury. James Edward FitzGerald describes his image: ‘Stewart’s Island (sic). The Saddle hill in the centre. From the South West. Sketched at sunset from…
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1850. The Charlotte Jane in antarctic waters, at 50 degrees south. J.E.FitzGerald’s ‘Study of the sea in a gale of wind’. Sketched from the deck of the Charlotte Jane on her voyage to New Zealand. Latitude 50 south. Nov. 1850.’…
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