Canterbury Provincial Council Building

Wheeler, E. & Son - Christchurch Landscapes

E. Wheeler & Son

above - The Bank of Australasia, Cashel Street.
The building was one of the earliest masonry commercial buildings in Christchurch, having been erected in 1863 to a design by Hawkes and Strout.
(Lost Christchurch - John Wilson 1984)

The Bank of Australasia occupies a central position in Cashel Street, opposite the Triangle. Formerly it was a two-storey stone building, said to be the oldest of the kind in Christchurch. At present (October, 1902) a handsome building, in brick and stone, is being erected from designs by Messrs Clarkson and Ballantyne, architects. The bank has been represented in Christchurch since the very early days.
The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

above - The Town Halls
The two central buildings in this carte de visite are the first Town Hall (left) in Tudoresque style and the second Town Hall (right). The wooden first Town Hall was designed by Mountfort and Luck. The second Town Hall was built in 1862-63 of stone and brick to a design by S. C. Farr. It was damaged by earthquake and fire and demolished before it was 20 years old.

(Lost Christchurch - John Wilson 1984)

The Rev.
Frederick Richard Inwood
born 2 September 1849 - died 1 May 1939
Anglican Minister, Vicar of Flaxton - Ohoka 1889 to 1906, later first Vicar of New Brighton and then Burwood.
Later lived at 19 Cracroft Terrace, Christchurch.

He arrived in Lyttelton on the Sir George Seymour, departed Plymouth Sound, England 8 September 1850, anchored at Lyttelton at 10am 17 December 1850. His father Daniel Inwood had the mill on the Avon River near Hereford Street bridge.

inscription on reverse states:
"The Rev Mr Inwood
Burwood
Chch
NZ
1912"

Randolph Mainwaring

Randolph Mainwaring
1839-1902

Randolph Mainwaring was born in 1839 (1) at Newcastle under Lyme, England the eighth son of Rear Admiral Rowland Mainwaring (1783–1862), by his third wife Laura Maria Julia Walbergha the only child of Florian Chevillard, one of Napoleon's colonels.

He married on 15 August 1883 at Mitcham, Surrey to Edith Laura Vernon Foley the youngest daughter of Henry Foley, B.A. Univ. Coll., Oxford (2). Her sister Florence Maud Foley was married to Randolph Mainwaring’s brother Karl Heinrich Augustus Mainwaring. Edith Mainwaring died on 23 April 1887 at San Remo, Italy. (3)

He died in 1902 aged 63 years (4)

(1) Births Sep 1839 Mainwaring Randolph Newcastle under Lyme vol.17 page 99

(2) MAINWARING - FOLEY -August 15 at Mitcham, Surrey, by -- Randolph Mainwaring, to Edith L.V. Foley, daughter of the late Henry Foley, of Ersham House, Canterbury, and Westow Manor House, Hunts.

(3) Mainwaring - On the 23rd inst., at San Remo, Edith Laura Vernon, wife of Randolph Mainwaring, Esq., and daughter of the late Henry Foley, Esq., of Ersham House, Canterbury. The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, April 27, 1887; pg. [1]; Issue 35835.

(4) Deaths Dec 1902 Mainwaring Randolph aged 63 Edmonton vol. 3a page 213

News has been received in town to-day from England of the death of Mr. Randolph Mainwaring, a well-known resident of Christchurch some years ago. The late Mr. Mainwaring filled a high position in the Canterbury Education Department before the abolition of the provinces. After that event he was well known in Canterbury as a journalist, writer, and artist. When Mr. Mainwaring left the colony to reside in England in the later eighties, he left behind a large circle of friends, who will be very sorry to hear of his death — which was not altogether unexpected, as Mr. Mainwaring was for some years an invalid. He was a brother of Mr. Eugene Mainwaring, of the Railway Land Office. Evening Post, Volume LXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1903, Page 6

James Walter Oliver

James Walter Oliver
c.1853-1943

Sydenham Post Office

former

Sydenham Post Office

340 Colombo Street, Sydenham, ChristchurchHistoric Place - Category II

Registered 26 November 1981

Sir Joseph Ward will deliver a speech at Waimate on Friday evening. He will speak at Oamaru the following day and will be in Christchurch next Monday, when he will lay the foundation stone of the public buildings in Cathedral Square and that of the post office at Sydenham.

Grey River Argus, 16 November 1911, Page 4

The Prime Minister is expected to arrive early this evening by motor-car from Oamaru. To-morrow, at 11 a.m., he lays the foundation stone of the Government's new departmental buildings in Worcester street, and at 3 p.m. lays the foundation stone of a new post office at Sydenham.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, 20 November 1911, Page 5

above and below - the old Sydenham Post Office, 18 May 2003.

below - 8 May 2011