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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.

Richmond School Class Photos, 1898—1934

12/4/2019

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Recently I visited the Christchurch office of Archives New Zealand to explore their holdings concerning Richmond School. Among the items I found were a number of photographs of school classes, sporting teams, and other groups from Richmond School. Thanks to Archives New Zealand/Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Christchurch Regional Office, for their permission to use these photos on our website. I have gathered twenty-six of the photos together with some background information, in the document below.

The date for the photo above is not certain — around 1920. The Primer 6 class is large — 45; 25 boys and 20 girls. Nobody seems to be very happy about having their photo taken!? Several of the other photos show some elements of the school environment and in some cases show nearby houses and other buildings, offering a glimpse of Richmond about 100 years ago.

Most of the photos were taken when the school was on its original site on Stanmore Rd (now Richmond Green). Four were taken in 1926 or later when the school had moved to the site nearby in Cumberland St (now Pavitt St).

by David Hollander


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Businesses of the Stanmore Road North End — a Potted History

2/4/2019

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The photo above shows the old shops on the western side of Stanmore Rd near the intersection with North Avon Rd in the late 1970s. These buildings were demolished soon after to make way for the construction of Richmond Village.

The four-page document below contains transcriptions of two letters written by Roy Burn, proprietor of the North Avon Shoe Store Ltd, 333 Stanmore Rd. Pages 1 & 2 give the text of a hand-written document prepared in 1980. Roy appended a note at the end: “1980 on the opening of the new Richmond Village”. The document provides a potted history of many businesses in the commercial area at the north end of Stanmore Rd, over many years of 20th century. It may help readers locate some of the businesses mentioned in the document, to refer to the 1940 Stanmore Rd map prepared by Noeline Hansen and Shona Ward — see the item “Stanmore Road, Richmond — 1940” below on this page.

On p3 is another letter from Roy Burn about the same time, when the new Richmond Village opened at the corner of Stanmore & North Avon Rds. This letter outlines in more detail the story of the shoe repair business at 327 Stanmore Rd, taken over by Roy Burn’s father, Albert, in 1928 and how this developed into the shoe retail business at 333 Stanmore. This letter and short introduction were printed in the August 2006 issue of the Richmond Community News (Issue 39).

The final page includes a map graphic advertising the North Avon shopping centre and its mix of businesses. This is dated 1972 in a handwritten note on the reverse.

The original documents are housed in the Richmond Room at Avebury house, along with much other material covering the history of the Richmond area. The document was transcribed by David Hollander, July 2018. The transcription has been edited lightly; correcting spelling and punctuation, but otherwise leaving the document as it was written.
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