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News: tagged with "heritage"

• Springbok tour protestors invited to share memories

  Posted: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: heritage, community engagement
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 20th July 2021 This month is the anniversary of the divisive and controversial 1981 Springbok tour and Christchurch City Libraries want those who were at the protests to share their memories

• Changing face of Canterbury on display in new exhibition

  Posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: heritage, exhibition, arts
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 6th July 2021 The changing faces of everyday Cantabrians will be on display in a new exhibition of images from New Zealand’s longest-running photography studio, Standish and Preece

• Hidden places: Power and pumps in Christchurch

  Posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: heritage, built environment
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 9th June 2021 The mystery of the curious little brick buildings that dot the city dates to colonial Christchurch. There were serious drainage problems with the city developed on a flat, low-lying, waterlogged site

• Heritage restoration project gets helping hand

  Posted: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: funding, restoration, heritage
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 24th March 2021 Christchurch City Council is going to provide financial help to a charitable trust that is seeking to complete the restoration of two important heritage buildings

• Ten years on: Saving Christchurch’s heritage

  Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: disasters, earthquake, recovery, heritage, built environment
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 16th February 2021 Several heritage structures owned by the Christchurch City Council were lost in the aftermath of the 2010-11 earthquakes but about 60 of the most-loved sites have been saved

• Museum treasure hunt goes high-tech

  Posted: Thursday, January 14, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: technology, history, heritage
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 12th January 2021 Canterbury Museum is going high-tech with its latest treasure hunt

• New information board tracks history of Lyttelton rail tunnel

  Posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: history, heritage
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 14th December 2020 A new information board telling the story of the Lyttelton Rail Tunnel - the oldest rail tunnel in New Zealand - has been erected on Heathcote Valley’s Station Road

• Fun new hoarding tells story of Christ Church Cathedral

  Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: heritage, recovery, rebuild
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 15th October 2020 A fun new hoarding erected around Christ Church Cathedral is giving people a glimpse of the building's past and its future

• Treasured items on display for museum's 150th birthday

  Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: heritage, exhibition
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 14th October 2020 The world's last remaining huia nest is one of the rarely-seen taonga on show in a Christchurch Heritage Festival exhibition marking 150 years since the Canterbury Museum first opened its doors

• Family matters for Akaroa Museum

  Posted: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: arts, Community, heritage
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 14th July 2020 An old painting of Banks Peninsula cottages has set the scene for a family history lesson given by a visiting grandfather to his young grandchildren at Akaroa Museum

• Volunteers go with flow to share Orton Bradley heritage

  Posted: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: heritage, recreation, restoration, volunteers
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 7th July 2020 A restored 19th century waterwheel – along with a group of hardy volunteers – is driving interest in a popular heritage park overlooking Lyttelton Harbour

• Dual place names for Banks Peninsula features

  Posted: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: maori, environment, heritage
  Beehive media release: 7th July 2020 The history of Rāpaki is being restored through the inclusion of te reo in thirteen official place names on Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū/ Banks Peninsula and around Lyttelton Harbour/ Whakaraupō, the Minister for Land Inform

• Christ Church Cathedral site ready for restoration

  Posted: Thursday, April 16, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: earthquake, recovery, rebuild, built environment, heritage
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 16th April 2020 Plans are under way to ensure that restoration work on Christ Church Cathedral can start as soon as possible after the lifting of lockdown restrictions

• New Canterbury digital heritage archive an open book

  Posted: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: heritage, technology, information
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 14th January 2020 A new digital repository captures the heritage of Canterbury, with rare images and previously unpublished community and personal records now publicly accessible

• Christchurch's Berlin Wall pieces mark 30th anniversary

  Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: heritage, arts
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 19th November 2019 Remnants of the Berlin Wall have gone up in Christchurch in time for the anniversary month of the controversial barrier’s fall 30 years ago

• Digital museum gives glimpses into our history

  Posted: Thursday, October 31, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: heritage, technology
  Selwyn District Council media release: 30th October 2019 Lincoln has been turned into a giant museum where anyone with a smartphone can glimpse the history of the world around them

• Design appointments mark key milestone for Christ Church Cathedral

  Posted: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 in: Earthquake With tags: earthquake recovery, rebuild, heritage
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 1st May 2019 Design work to reinstate Christ Church Cathedral is under way following the appointment of key consultants to the project team