As the sun set on the era of the Provincial Government, Christchurch – like most of the country’s main cities – must have felt a sudden vacuum as the Christchurch City Council settled itself into its new role. Christchurch that we know today was in 1876, just a land mass with pockets of population, only …
Charles Prince (1822 – 1908) Died of old age Place of Death: U.S.A * Remembered in the naming of the suburbs Sydenham and Waltham. Buried at the Mt Pleasant Old City Cemetery, Iowa, U.S.A. The story of Sydenham and Waltham: http://www.peelingbackhistory.co.nz/sydenham-waltham-charles-prince-1822-1908/ Photo courtesy of http://www.findagrave.com/
When Charles Prince arrived in Lyttelton in 1858, I’m sure he had no idea that two future suburb names would be influenced by him with very little effort made by him at all. An ex-school master, Charles seemed to have no plans to follow his previous working path. By 1860, his crockery and china shop …
