John

“I used to run late to work all of the time. I live in Richmond and work in Hornby. So I saved up and got this E-Bike. It cost me quite a bit of money but I stack crates out in Hornby and then I do a paper run too. I use it for work, […]

Yvonne and Carl

“Last December, Carl came into the store, looking at the Christmas lights, and I was tidying them up. We talked for about half an hour. My grandchildren came up from Queenstown and I took them out to the Christmas lights. I talked to him and invited him out for a coffee. I wasn’t sure where […]

Antonio

“I’ve lived in Christchurch for 3 years, I came here for work. I came to work as a postdoctoral fellow for the University of Canterbury. I’m Originally from Progreso, Yucatan, Mexico, but I have been to several places already. I lived in the UK, in Glasgow for four and a half years and while I […]

Aleksey

“I’m 12 and I’m home schooled. I love the music the accordion makes and it’s easy to carry. It’s an orchestra in a bag!” – Aleksey

Barry

“I live in the city. Born and bred in Christchurch, but I went to high school in Marlborough. After the earthquakes I went to Queenstown for two years to get out of town. Came back for work. I remember catching the bus to school. I went to St Michaels and catching the bus every day […]

Topsy and Kitty

“My husband John knew Topsy and her husband Stan before I did. Topsy and I have been in the museum together for about 46 years.” – Kitty “Ken Maynard was having a yack one night about the mischief they got up to down at Scarborough when we were kids. And I said ‘but Ken, we […]

Nan and her Grands

“We’ve come to throw flowers off the pier for our Nan. It was cool! People are stopping and looking at the flowers that are washed out. Well we’re all from the North Island. I live in Wellington but I just moved back actually. I was down here for a year, living with Nan. She was […]

Neith

“This started off with me wanting to get into rowing. My teacher said, ‘this is gonna be bloody expensive.’ So I looked at ways to find money; I was looking at getting some sort of minimum wage job. Then I thought why don’t I start my own business? And then it was like, it’s got […]

Jane

“I grew up in North Canterbury and Waipara. When I was around 10 we moved into the city. I left a community where I felt I belonged, I knew people and they knew me. I moved into this wild city of Christchurch which was quite shocking to me. It seems quite funny now, because I […]

Toby

“I think the events of March 15 and also the earthquakes of 2010 and ‘11 were pretty defining moments for me. We lost our neighbour in the earthquakes. During the mosque attacks we had been sponsoring a muslim family who’d come over from Jordan. For about 18 months prior to that we had built a […]