Knowlescourt (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Date: [1970s-1990s]

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11721

Description: Transparencies of houses in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the house. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Many slides are not dated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case labelled 'South Island Houses'. The arrangement was by location of house, approximately from North to South, from back to front then from left to right. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1970s-1993

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-4162

Description: Transparencies of houses and homesteads on stations or farms and in towns and cities, taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton, 1970s to 1993. Includes a homestead possibly at Murchiston, Highwic in Auckland, 'Aukanui' (no location noted), Blue Cliffs Station homestead, Brancepeth homestead, 'Holly Lea' in Christchurch, and 'knowlescourt' at 274 Papanui Road in Christchurch. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Transparencies were in labelled glassine bags in a sequence of mainly negatives and prints and some transparencies labelled "Houses". Quantity: 8 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Transparencies were removed from glassine bags and rehoused for reasons of preservation and appropriate storage.

Date: [Between 1923 and 1928]

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Russell, Thomas Gregory, 1851?-1935

Reference: Pan-0216-F

Description: Two views, front and rear, of a large mock Tudor brick house and garden. Photograph taken in the Christchurch area in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - "T.G. Russell Ch.Ch E 40 x 10" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.6 x 115.1 cm

Date: 8-9 July 2011

From: BeckerFraserPhotos :Photographs relating to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011

Reference: PADL-000836

Description: Photographs relating to the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes taken by Ross Becker comprising photographs taken in the CBD (central business district) red zone area taken on 9 July 2011, and photographs of Merivale, Knox Church, Avonside, Stanmore Road taken on 8 and 9 July 2011 during winter season. Includes views of the Richmond Working Mens Club and M.S.A building, London Street, Richmond, "unsafe" sign, Richmond Methodist Church and demolished church hall on Stanmore Road, nearby park. Includes views taken on Bealey Avenue, demolition on site of 118 Bealey Avenue, various signs for relocated businesses. Includes views taken on Victoria Street showing Fidelity House, Procope Coffee House, Knox Church. Includes views taken in Cashmere showing domestic house, wide views of Christchurch city and snowy mountains, cyclists riding up Cashmere Hill, "temporary bus services" sign. Includes views taken on Montreal street showing The Coffee House, traffic cones, Christchurch City Council building, Police Station, guerilla knitting messages on fence, Registry Additions building of Christchurch Arts Centre at 301 Montreal Street (housed Untouched World), electorate office for Nicky Wagner, National MP. Includes views taken on Hereford Street showing messages of support for Dux de Lux restaurant on fence, signs for businesses, closed sign for Thomas's Hotel, Children's Library and old Canterbury Public Library, Ross Becker photographing Library, salvaged stonework outside the Dux de Lux, wooden houses and Art Deco flats. Includes views taken on Worcester Street showing The Arts Centre, shipping containers, scaffolding on clock tower, street busker playing saxophone, Canterbury Museum. Includes views taken on Rolleston Avenue showing Canterbury Museum. Includes views taken on Cambridge Terrace and Worcester Boulevard showing public looking through cordon wire fence, views across the River Avon of buildings on Oxford Terrace, Rydges Hotel, former Public Trust, Our City O-Tautahi (159 Oxford Terrace), bridge, River Avon, wooden sculpture "Te Pou Herenga waka" in front of Christchurch City Council premises, tram lines, Axiom House (109 Cambridge Terrace), 69 Worcester Boulevard (housing Languages International). Includes views taken on Cramner Square showing danger sign outside old house, red stickered townhouses (22 Cranmer Square), damaged Cranmer Court (former Christchurch Normal School on corner of Montreal and Kilmore streets). Includes views taken on Kilmore Street showing demolition crew working on St Luke's Anglican Church, Ross Becker photographing the church. Includes views taken in Avonside suburb showing River Avon, cracks in road alongside river, views of bird life, flooded river banks and reconstruction along Avonside Drive and River Road and Dallington Terrace, household debris and building rubble, closure sign at Avonside Girls High School, Moira Fraser, Avonside Community Group update notice on pole, trucks and digger parked, MED sub station, twisted bridge over river, earthquake damage to streets and houses, water tanks, boys BMX biking and skateboarding, Christchurch earthquake response information sign, waste truck at work, water pipes on pavement. Includes views taken in Merivale and Strowan showing church buildings and detached steeple of Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church 163 Papanui Road, St Mary's Anglican Church (45 Papanui Road and Church Lane), bricks outside damaged Knowles Court 271 Papanui Road during demolition, cleared demolition site. Includes views of the dome being taken off the Regent Theatre, Cathedral Square. Includes views taken on St Aspagh Street showing hospital chimney. Quantity: 510 digital photograph(s).