!! CHRISTCHURCH !!

Why do I so love Christchurch ?? In the 1980s I twice crossed the windswept Tasman Sea from West Island [aka Australia] & visited Christchurch unseemly often .....

Well, there is the Avon River, which sports dozens of bridges, many of them, stone. Und jetzt ... the Avon actually flows not, being but a long pond in a gully at best; although upstream the bed dwindles to naught in the Park ... Und jetzt ...

An Avon Spanning Stone Bridge ========A Path Beside The Park Dwindling Avon

The Christchurch Cathedral Spire has been cast down several times by earthquakes, only to be raised to its point once more, by persistent humanity.

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The Parliament House of Canterbury Province, long since has lost its function, & like its stained glass windows, is but artistic ... Yet is all the more dignified for that ...

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[on your right] is the leadlight glass of the curious "Sign Of The Takahe", high up in the Port Hills. The "Sign Of The Takahe" casts its own curious, inspired vision.

Below [left] - its Port Hills vista.

Lastly, My Memory dwells on a scatter of neon & street lights, close by the centre of Christchurch, as the dawn of a new day caused evening to fall on My Time there.

To New Brighton Beach or Timaru or Home

©Tony Sims, 2001- text, photographs, formatting & ego.