Daresbury Rookery, 67 Fendalton Road, Christchurch: Picturing Canterbury

Daresbury Rookery, 67 Fendalton Road, Christchurch [ca. 1902]. File Reference CCL PhotoCD 10, IMG0030.

Daresbury Rookery, 67 Fendalton Road, Christchurch [ca. 1902].

This photograph shows Daresbury, a 50-room house on 25 acres, designed by S. Hurst Seager and built between 1897 and 1901 for George Humphreys (1848 or 9-1934), co-founder of the wine and spirits merchants Fletcher Humphries. Until 1945 the property was called Daresbury Rookery because of a colony of rooks that made its home in about 100 bluegums planted on the property in 1862 by Jane Deans. A snowstorm in 1945 damaged the trees and the rooks left.

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Zetland Arms hotel, Cashel Street, Christchurch: Picturing Canterbury

Zetland Arms hotel, Cashel Street, Christchurch [1902]. File Reference CCL PhotoCD 10, IMG0026.

Date: 1902

Another of the early wooden hotels in Christchurch which was originally an eating house, later a hotel. The licensee from 1898 was John Fox (1836-1907). This building was condemned by the Licensing Committee in 1902 and plans for a new hotel were approved in March 1902. See: Early Christchurch Hotels compiled by Jim Watson.

Source: Canterbury Times, 7 May 1902, p. 36.

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Photo Hunt October: Gundry- Strong Wedding, 1902

Entry 2015 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt, PH15-RoSt-Ethel_Gundry_marries_Frederick_Strong_1902 CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 NZ

Roger Strong entered this photo of his grandparents’ wedding in the 2015 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt:  “Frederick George Howard Bach Strong marries Ethel Theresa Gundry.  The wedding toook place in Christchurch, August 20th, 1902  – Springfield Road somewhere?   The Strong family is on the groom’s side. The bride’s father was William Hickley Gundry, a prominent auditor and accountant in Christchurch. His uncle was Dr Gundry one of the first settlers along with his father Samuel Gundry. The man with the beard at the back, third to the left of the groom is the groom’s father – at that time Librarian of the Canterbury Public Library – the Strong’s lived in the library house on Cambridge terrace.”

But what is the story behind the figure cut out in the back row?

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Christchurch City Libraries has been running an annual Photo Hunt in conjunction with the city’s Heritage Week since 2008.  The 2016 Photo Hunt is running again from 1 – 31 October. During the month of October we will be posting a series of images from earlier Photo Hunts.

Enter the 2016 hunt online or at your local library.

Kete Christchurch is a collection of photographs and stories about Christchurch & Canterbury, past and present. Anyone can join and contribute.

City Council Chambers: 1902

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We have digitised a rather splendid 1902 publication Tourists’ guide to Canterbury.

Wallace & Co Dispensing Chemists: 1902

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We have digitised a rather splendid 1902 publication Tourists’ guide to Canterbury.

Ellerslie, Governor’s Bay: 1902

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We have digitised a rather splendid 1902 publication Tourists’ guide to Canterbury.

W. Sey, Paperhangings Warehouse: 1902

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We have digitised a rather splendid 1902 publication Tourists’ guide to Canterbury.

W. and E. Broadway: 1902

Broadway’s Confectioners, shop, Christchurch. Webb, Steffano, 1880?-1967 : Collection of negatives. Ref: 1/1-003970-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22795703

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We have digitised a rather splendid 1902 publication Tourists’ guide to Canterbury.

Daniel McIntyre: 1902

Mr D C McIntyre

Daniel McIntyre was a businessman who became Director of Exhibits for the 1906-1907 New Zealand International Exhibition held in Christchurch.

McIntyre was embroiled in controversy over financial irregularities and hurriedly left the country in 1907. He travelled under a false name and was arrested in Monte Video, Uruguay later that year. He was returned to Christchurch, where he plead guilty to four charges of theft. He repaid some money, but no record of his sentence or his date of death have been found.

Read the whole story.

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We have digitised a rather splendid 1902 publication Tourists’ guide to Canterbury.

Colombo Street, looking South: 1902

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We have digitised a rather splendid 1902 publication Tourists’ guide to Canterbury.