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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.

The Richmond Rambler

26/1/2018

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The Richmond Rambler was a monthly publication of the Richmond Working Mens’ Club, published between 1976 and late-1980s. Our collection at Avebury house includes the first two issues from September & October 1976. This was before the Richmond Village shopping centre was built(!?); Robert Muldoon had been Prime Minister for two years (seven more to go) and New Zealand was a very different place compared with today.

Ricky Gilmore, General Manager, RWMC, states that the club kept copies of the Rambler issues, but they were all lost in the damage to the buildings from the Canterbury earthquakes. Does anyone have old copies stashed away? We would love to borrow them for scanning so they can join these first two issues. We would, of course, return the originals to you in the same condition.

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Shirley Intermediate School 1940 Project

17/1/2018

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This remarkable document came to light during preparations for the Shirley Intermediate School 75th jubilee in 2009. The document had been prepared by pupils at the school in 1940, as part of New Zealand’s centennial celebrations of that year. The entire school took part in a survey of their local district; the document’s 321 pages are divided into four sections: Historical, Geographical, Social and Economic.

The survey was carried out in accordance with official guidelines of the time; all the school pupils were involved and the entire document, apart from four typewritten introductory pages, was produced by the pupils. All the material is handwritten and all the many illustrations were prepared by the pupils, including 26 B&W photographs, which were taken and produced by the school photographic club.

The document offers a fascinating glimpse into our part of Christchurch in the mid-20th century, as seen and recorded by its children.

The entire document has been scanned and reproduced as a PDF file. We have  prepared four files of each of the sections:
1.       Historical Section: 62 pages, 19 MB.
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2.       Geographical Section: 32 pages, 11 MB.

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3.       Social Section: 186 pages, 51 MB.

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4.       Economic section: 41 pages, 14 MB.

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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:

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