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Purchase "City and Peninsula"

The Historic Places of Christchurch and Banks Peninsula

City and Peninsula Book Reprinted
Christchurch Civic Trust are happy to announce a third print of our City and Peninsula book, and the first revised edition since 2011.
The previous second edition which has now sold out, was printed in 2011 but did not take into account the devastating 2011 earthquakes.
This third edition has been bought up-to-date by the author, John Wilson. He has kindly included a revised page at the front of the book with listings under:

Buildings Lost on Banks Peninsula
Buildings Lost in Lyttelton
Buildings Lost in Christchurch
Partial losses
Buildings with an Uncertain Future

We would like to thank him for his work on this.

Christchurch City Council Heritage Team kindly granted us the money to do the reprint for which we are very grateful.

The retail price of the book is higher with this new printing as I’m sure all will understand the amount of time since the last edition (fourteen years)

The recommended retail price is $50 – $55

The book is available from our stockists:
Scorpio Books, BNZ Centre
Smith’s Bookshop, The Tannery
The Arts Centre Shop, Arts Centre
Quake City, Durham Street, ChCh
Leslie’s Bookshop, Lyttelton
Piccardilly Bookshop, Avonhead Mall
University Bookshop, Canty. University

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CITY AND PENINSULA provides a refreshing and fascinating look at the historic buildings and sites of Christchurch, Lyttelton, Akaroa and Banks Peninsula. Christchurch is the largest city on New Zealand’s South Island, with some of the country’s most historically significant and architecturally interesting old buildings.

This book celebrates the region’s rich and varied historical heritage, much of which was needlessly demolished in the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes.

A local historian and two professional photographers have combined to create a generously illustrated book with an informative text covering the region’s history from the earliest years of Polynesian settlement through to the middle of the 20th century. This book shows the outstanding buildings and most significant sites in the area. It also features humbler buildings and places that tell of the daily lives of the region’s ordinary citizens in the past.

The Christchurch and Akaroa Civic Trusts have worked for more than four decades to ensure that demolition and decay do not further erode the historic characters of Christchurch, Lyttelton and Akaroa. The Trusts have fought to maintain the region’s sense of its past, sustained by heritage buildings and historic sites. They have now joined forces to publish this book, which celebrates the rich heritage they have helped to preserve.

Because many parts of that heritage remain threatened, the Trusts also wanted to stimulate public interest and increase understanding of its importance.

This book has been published to make the community better aware of the variety and value of the region’s historical heritage and to build widespread support for the Trusts’ efforts to preserve that heritage.

Only $50.00 + Postage if required

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