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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.

Bampton's Road 1939

24/1/2018

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Bampton's Road is a narrow shingle road, about thirty-two chains long, stretching from New Brighton Road to Cooper's Road. This is a footpath on one side without shingle on it, while on the east there is a large uncovered drain. The road is out of the city boundary and is named after Mr. Bampton, who still owns a dairy farm there. Besides dairy farms there are market gardens and orchards.
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Averill Street 1939

19/1/2018

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This document is part of a project by the Shirley Intermediate School in February 1939. The students were sent out to interview residents to gather information about the district. We will be posting some of their reports in verbatim including a scan of the actual report.
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Averill Street
A chain road about a quarter of a mile in length, Averill Street, was named after Reverend Averill, who has lately announced his retirement from the archbishoprie of New Zealand, runs east from Stapleton's Road to North Parade. As the name suggests Averill Street marked a sub-division of land belonging to the Anglican Church of New Zealand. At present it is purely a residential locality. The few remaining sites being rapidly built upon. One of the houses was given as a prize in an Art Union arranged by the Christchurch Commercial Travellers — in aid of the Patriotic Fund during the 1916-1918 War.

This is also the site of one of the largest wells in Christchurch. It was sunk for the City Council — to assist the City Water Supply and will pass through a pumping station to be erected on the site in the near future; a description of which will be found in another section.

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  • About
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    • Jobs and Opportunities
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    • Richmond History Group
  • Events and Room Hire
    • Weddings
    • Rooms
    • Rates
  • What's On
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