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The Red House Museum is a free entry museum of local history. The ground floor features a Kitchen Gallery, Victorian Bygones Gallery, costume and fashion collections, and an exhibition of 1930s furniture by the noted Christchurch-based craftsman Arthur Romney Green. The Main Gallery in the former stables hosts regular temporary exhibitions.
Christchurch has listings in the former two categories. As of July 2011 [update] , 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 ...
Mudeford (/ ˈ m ʌ d ɪ f ər d / MUD-ih-fərd) is a harbourside and beachside parish [2] based on a former fishing village in the east of Christchurch, Dorset, England (historically in Hampshire), fronting water on two sides: Christchurch Harbour and the sands of Avon Beach.
Christchurch is a major city in the Canterbury Region, and is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.With a Māori history stemming back to the thirteenth century as the domain of the historic Waitaha iwi, Christchurch was constituted as a colonial outpost of the British Empire in 1850.
Ferrymead Heritage Park is an outdoor museum in Christchurch, New Zealand.. First known as the Museum of Science and Technology and later Ferrymead Historic Park, it was founded in 1964 by a collection of local heritage enthusiast groups who had a common need for space to store and display their assets.
Christchurch Castle is a Norman motte and bailey castle in Christchurch, Dorset, England (grid reference). The earliest stonework has been dated to 1160 (865 years ago) ( 1160 ) . The castle's site is inside the old Saxon burh dominating the River Avon 's lowest crossing.
The Twelve Local Heroes sculptures. The Twelve Local Heroes is a series of bronze busts in Christchurch, New Zealand.Sculpted by Mark Whyte, the objective was to commemorate twelve local Christchurch people who were prominent in their respective fields in the latter part of the 20th century.
Another local landmark, The Black House, on the opposite side of the Run from Mudeford Quay, is the subject of a local story, which claims it obtained its distinctive colour when a group of free traders took refuge in the building; the excise officers set fires to smoke the occupants out, blackening the buildings walls, which are still painted ...