12 October 1917 – Machine guns poked over the parapets and bayonets were at the ready. Soldiers in khaki approached tentatively, but this wasn’t a battlefield – it was a military-themed ballroom. This is the little-known story of a grand ball that was held in Wellington at the […]
One hundred years ago today the Fairfield Freezing Works held a fancy dress ball in the Orange Hall in Ashburton. The men paid three shillings and sixpence each and the women provided the food. They were entertained by the tunes of Terris’s band, local favourites who played everything […]
Wednesday July 24th 1912 was a fairly unremarkable day. No liners collided with icebergs, no Archdukes were assassinated and no Kings were crowned. But today does mark a special centenary that I thought I’d share with you. It was one hundred years ago today that the Lyttelton Railway […]
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