• “…a momentary ray of sunshine…” – C. Warren Adams

    “What then was our astonishment at the panorama that opened before us as we pulled round the little point!  Wide streets, neat houses, shops, stores, hotels, coffee rooms, emigration barracks, a neat seawall, and an excellent and convenient jetty, with vessels discharging their cargoes upon it, met our view; whilst a momentary ray of sunshine …

  • Kerrs Reach

    Between Avonside Drive and Lockley Ave lays a certain part of the Avon known as ‘Kerrs Reach’.  The moment you see it, you can tell it’s man made as the Reach is wide, straight and now the home to a few of the rowing clubs of Christchurch. But the Reach did not begin in this …

  • “…As Happy As People Are…” – E.W. Coop

    “So, between the sawdust heap, a little cricket, after doing 10 hour a day work, some training for local sports and dancing, we were I think as happy as people are today with ever so many more smaller things and knew no better”. – 29th December 1948 E.W. Coop (1870 – 1954) * E.W Coop …

  • Charles Hazlitt Upham (1908 – 1994)

    Charles Hazlitt Upham (1908 – 1994)    Died of old age    Place of Death: Christchurch * The most highly decorated Commonwealth soldier of WWII. * Was awarded two Victoria Crosses, first in 1941 and then in 1945. * He is the only combat soldier to have received a Victoria Cross. * He was the only soldier …

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