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Samuel Marsden letters

Collection

Identifier: CCL Archive 0631

Scope and Contents

Photocopied manuscript of one 1820 letter from Samuel Marsden, an 1836 letter to Marsden, and two unsigned and undated letters, one very possibly from a grandson or granddaughter of Marsden.

Dates: c1820-1830

Found in: Christchurch City Libraries Archives Collection

Samuel Shrimpton shipboard log

Collection

Identifier: CCL Archive 0348

Scope and Contents

Typescript copy of original shipboard log of Samuel Shrimpton kept on board the Royal Stuart on her voyage from Plymouth to Lyttelton.

Includes a photocopy of an 1867 account made out to Mr. Shrimpton, from the English School, Valparaiso. Includes some Shrimpton family notes. They were a family of needlemakers in Redditch, Worcestershire.

Dates: 1854-1855

Found in: Christchurch City Libraries Archives Collection

Sandra Moore Ballantynes' fire photographs

Collection

Identifier: CCL Archive 0837

Scope and Contents

Photographs of firemen fighting the fire at Ballantyne's Department Store on Cashel Street in central Christchurch.

One photograph is taken looking down onto the roof of the burning building. Four of the photographs have the name Sandra Moore written on the back, and the original envelope has "Property of T. Moore" written on it.

Dates: 1947

Found in: Christchurch City Libraries Archives Collection

Sarah Ann Brunning papers

Collection

Identifier: CCL Archive 0585

Scope and Contents Photocopied typescript and illustrations of Hornchurch to Christchurch The Cressey-Brunning Story, The story of Sarah Ann Brunning, c. 1835 – 1882 and Thomas Bennett Cressey, c. 1829 – 1919. Includes a description of Hornchurch and detailed history of the Cressey family.Sarah was the daughter of Sarah Ann Brunning (see Arch 584). She and Thomas married in September 1856. Photocopied typescript, photographs, sketches, maps and genealogical tables. Includes marriage...

Dates: 1991

Found in: Christchurch City Libraries Archives Collection

Satire in the style of Enid Blyton by Ken Corliss

Collection

Identifier: CCL Archive 0381

Scope and Contents

Photocopied manuscript of unpublished spoof novel titled Satire in the style of Enid Blyton by Ken Corliss.

Dates: c1980

Found in: Christchurch City Libraries Archives Collection

Save the Children Fund (N.Z.) North Canterbury Branch records

Collection

Identifier: CCL Archive 0653

Scope and Contents The records of the Save the Children Fund (N.Z.) North Canterbury Branch includes memberships; constitution and rules; meeting minutes; correspondence; reports; newspaper clippings; scrapbooks and financial records.Included are papers of the Redcliffs-Sumner Sub-Branch, which began in 1967 and went into recess in 2001, and some papers of the Kaiapoi Sub-Branch. Also includes a copy of A Canterbury Tale : the history of the first fifty years of the North Canterbury Branch of the...

Dates: 1947-2001

Found in: Christchurch City Libraries Archives Collection

School histories by Ian McBride

Collection

Identifier: CCL Archive 0974

Scope and Contents

Typescript histories of Riccarton Primary School, Our Lady of Victories School (Sockburn), Riccarton High School, and St Thomas of Canterbury College. These brief histories were written for The Paparua County: a concise history written and compiled by Ian McBride.

Dates: 1973-1990

Found in: Christchurch City Libraries Archives Collection

Scripture Gift Mission Bible

Collection

Identifier: CCL Archive 0861

Scope and Contents

New Testament Bible from the Scripture Gift Mission and Naval and Military Bible Society. In English, translated Out of the Original Greek, and With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command : Appointed to Be Read in Churches.

Includes messages by Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener (p. [2] of cover) and Decision card (p. [3] of cover). Inscription reads: Sister Walker. HM. Hospital Ship "Makeno" April 1916. F.G. Gray [?] Chaplain.

Dates: 1914

Found in: Christchurch City Libraries Archives Collection