Richmond History

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 Primary School 50th Jubilee booklet -1925

30/5/2018

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This is a bit of a find! We do not have a copy of the 1925 Richmond School Jubilee booklet in our collection at Avebury House - nor is one available in the Christchurch City Library, but I have been able to reproduce the booklet from a mixture of material supplied by Beverley Evans: old photocopies of some pages and digicam copies of others. The result is that we can read the 17-page document in full, nearly — we just don't have a copy of the cover!?

And there is some fascinating reading; a detailed description of the original wooden school building on Stanmore Rd (on the site of what is now Richmond Green), along with information about early staff and reproductions of some wonderful old photos.

1925 was the year the school moved from the old Stanmore Rd site to a new purpose-built facility in Cumberland St (now Pavitt St). There is a photo of the brand-new two-storey brick building that would house the school for fifty years, as well as a photo of the school's Roll of Honour in its original form. The Roll of Honour Board is now located at Avebury House — see an earlier post on this page.

Our thanks go to Beverley Evans for sharing archival material with the Richmond History group.

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100 Years of the RWMC

2/5/2018

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Ricky Gilmore, General Manager of the Richmond Working Men’s Club has generously agreed for us to include a copy of the club’s centenary book on our web-page. The book was produced in 1987 by a centennial book committee and was edited by Dion Crooks. The 78-page book outlines the history and development of the club and its many subgroups, and includes many photos as well as anecdotes about members and events over the course of the club’s first hundred years.

The book is hard to find now; most copies were sold, presumably to club members at the time of the centenary. The few that were left at the club were lost in the damage caused by the 2010–11 earthquakes. There is a single copy in the Canterbury Public Library Aotearoa New Zealand Centre (Call #: 367.993831 RIC— reference only), so it is great to have the chance to make the book more available to interested people. Thanks to Ricky who loaned us his personal copy for scanning.

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