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Richmond History Group

The Richmond History Group is based at Avebury House. The group maintains a collection of books, photographs and other memorabilia illustrating and recording the history of Avebury House and the development of the surrounding suburb of Richmond. We seek to expand the collection and have begun a project to digitise items from the collection and make them available online. This is a work-in-progress and we will be adding items to this site from now on.

If you have photographs or other material concerning Richmond’s past, we would love to hear from you. Perhaps you would like to donate items to the collection, or allow us to view the material and if suitable, borrow items for recording and adding to our digital archive. We would of course return the items to you in the same condition as we received them.

If you would like to learn more about the group, or become involved, please contact Andrea at 381-6615.

Flesher Family Photos

12/1/2018

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In our archives is a photograph album consisting of 24 pages of B&W photos, plus front and rear covers. The photographs show the Flesher family and their home at Avebury in 1909–11, after the 1907 renovations overseen by James Glanville, the original architect. There are two good exterior views of Avebury House and an interior view of the drawing room on the ground floor. There is a photo of the tennis court to the south of the house (where the paddling pool is now) and several views of the garden. Several of the photos show social occasions at Avebury, while others show the Flesher children; Hubert and Beryl, sometimes along with other children. Apart from the valuable records of Avebury and its surroundings, the photos give an interesting insight into the lives of a wealthy family in Edwardian Christchurch.

You can download the whole album below:

flesher_family_photo_album-c1910.pdf
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