Connect with St Albans
This website is dedicated to the recovery of St Albans and its city, Christchurch following a devastating series of earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. This service by the St Albans Residents’ Association (SARA) offers relevant local information. If you are from an organisation or a business and have essential information you would like to share with the community, then please get in touch by email to sara@stalbans.gen.nz and we will endeavour to publish it here.Translations
Category Archives: History
LOST HERITAGE: 1 Eversleigh Street
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust has removed item 3722 from its register of heritage buildings in Christchurch because the house has been demolished following the earthquakes. The house at the corner of 82 Springfield Road and 1 Eversleigh Street, … Continue reading
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Family History Expo In October
A Family History Expo is being held at the St Albans and Shirley Club in October. The Department of Internal Affairs, Ancestry.com and other organizations will take part in the event on October 13-14, organized by the Family History Society … Continue reading
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Winter in St Albans
25 July 2011: An early morning encounter at Abberley Park – with a carrot directly from Fresh Choice! Photo: Helen Ross
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Video Recording of the demolition of the Community Centre
A local resident, Dafyd, made a video recording of the event, which can be viewed on Youtube.
HOW CHRISTCHURCH BECAME THE GARDEN CITY – Diana Madgin
Garden-making was an important institution from the earliest days of settler colonisation in Christchurch. It wasn’t until more than half a century later, however, that we became known as the Garden City of the Dominion. But long before the Canterbury … Continue reading
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