Christchurch Local History Fact Files

• Local History Resources: an annotated bibliography of published sources on the history of Christchurch, Lyttelton and Banks Peninsula
• "Avonhead"
• Aranui Speedway
• Beckenham
• Bottle Lake and Waitikiri
• Bryndwr and Burnside
• Burwood Hospital
• Burwood Park
• Burwood Public Library
• Canterbury Writers
  • Lady Barker 1831 - 1911
  • Ursula Bethell 1874 - 1945
  • Samuel Butler 1835 - 1902
  • Allen Curnow 1911 - 2001
  • Denis Glover 1912 - 1980
  • Edith Grossmann 1863 - 1931
  • Keri Hulme 1947 -
  • Margaret Mahy 1936 -
  • Ngaio Marsh 1895 - 1982
  • Gordon Ogilvie 1934 -
  • Essie Summers 1912 - 1998
• Canterbury Public Library to 1982
• Cemeteries of Christchurch
  • Addington Cemetery
  • Avonside Cemetery
  • Barbadoes Street Cemetery
  • Burwood Anglican Cemetery
  • Linwood Cemetery
  • Waimairi Cemetery
• Chicory Industry
• Christchurch Christmas Parades
• Dudley Creek
• Fendalton
  • Early Riccarton/Fendalton
  • Early Transport in North-west Christchurch
  • Fendalton Local History Walk
  • Fendalton Memories
• Fendalton Early Residents
  • Oscar Thorwald Johan Alpers 1867-1927
  • William Cuddon 1835 - 1924
  • Walpole Cheshire Fendall 1830 - 1913
  • Richard William Fereday 1820? - 1899
  • George Gould 1823 - 1889
  • Canon Thomas Albert Hamilton, Vicar of Fendalton 1849 - 1919
  • Harry Bell Johnstone
  • Ngaio Marsh
  • Frederick Maurice Warren
  • Elizabeth McCombs 1873 - 1935
  • John Charles Watts-Russell 1826 - 1875
• Fendalton Houses
  • Brenchley: 146 & 150 Fendalton Road
  • The Glue brothers’ contribution
  • Holly Lea : 123 Fendalton Road
  • "Huntley" - 67 Yaldhurst Road
  • 46 Memorial Avenue
• Hornby
  • Beginnings
  • The Development Phase
  • First Department Store
  • Early Industry
• Industry
• Influenza - the 1918 epidemic
• Lyttelton Library
• Early Marshland
• Medbury School
• Memorial Avenue
• The Parker Hulme Case
• Riccarton Flour Mill
• Robert Ewing McDougall
• Russley Golf Course Air Crash 21 November 1957
• St Helen’s Hospital
• Snow days
• Shirley
  • Shirley Methodist Church
• Shirley Early Residents
  • Bella Button 1863 - 1921
  • Huia Wiremu Beaumont 1901 - 1997
  • Eveleyn Charlotte Couzins 1896 - 1945
  • James Arthur Flesher 1865 - 1930
  • George King 1850 - 1922
  • William Henry Robinson 1906 - 1999
  • Amelia Frances Rogers 1849 - 1928
  • James Rowe 1845 - 1923
  • Sarah Elizabeth Tobin 1867 - 1930
  • The Rev Cecil Alexander Tobin 1856 - 1938
  • Early Residents of Richmond
• State Housing
• Statues, fountains, memorials, plaques of North-west Christchurch
• Sumner World War II Local Defences Trail
• Sydenham
  • St Helen’s Hospital
• Travis Wetland
• Tī Kōuka Whenua
• Walker Electric Truck
• Windsor House