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Burials in Christchurch by place (15 C) Pages in category "People from Christchurch" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 217 total.
Christchurch has listings in the former two categories. As of July 2011, there were 315 historic places and seven historic areas listed. In August 2011, Heritage New Zealand started the process of removing listings of buildings demolished after the earthquakes, starting with the Manchester Courts and the NZ Trust and Loan Building entries. [3]
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
Late in 1868, the Rollestons moved back to Christchurch to live at Linwood House. [27] This was a delicate affair, as this made conditions cramped (Sophia, her sons Joe and Frank, the Rollestons with their two children, plus servants made for cramped living in the eight rooms), and there has always been tension between William Rolleston and ...
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
Justice Peter Mahon QC, (1923–1986), the New Zealand High Court judge who led the Commission of Inquiry into the 1979 crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 into Mount Erebus. Margaret Mahy (1936–2012), writer for children and young adults; George Manning (1887–1976), politician and mayor of Christchurch
Original architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. Construction of the cathedral took 40 years, with construction paused at times due to a lack of funding. The origins of the cathedral date back to the plans of the Canterbury Association, which aimed to build a city around a central cathedral and college in the Canterbury region, based on the English model of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
In February 2013, the NZ$5.3 million budget had increased to NZ$5.9 million because of cost escalations. [ 4 ] Following the numerous delays the church hierarchy became secretive about the opening date and The Press reported on 2 August 2013 that the date was still unknown, [ 13 ] only for an opening ceremony to be held later that day for a ...