A new colony in New Zealand? A place they are going to call Canterbury? How fascinating! This was Benjamin Lancaster’s thoughts as he handed £150 over to the Canterbury Association in 1850. This opened the door to Canterbury for Benjamin in the form of land, even though he had no intention of moving his life …
On 15 October 1881, an athletic event officially opened Lancaster Park. A cricket match had been the original idea five days earlier but rain forced a cancellation. With the formation of the Canterbury Cricket and Athletics Sports Company Limited in 1880, land began to be sourced for a sports area and where a club house …
