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**Every Wednesday afternoon we go to Lyttelton Rec.Centre for gym 2pm-2.45pm** **parent helpers welcome!** media type="custom" key="10541870" On 21st of September we planted sunflower seeds in the land of the demolition plot where the Lyttelton Borough Council building once stood. This was for Conservation week and organised by the Enviroschools and 'Lyttelton, Green - A -Space - Andrew Drummond. Star students in junior assembly media type="custom" key="10404926"
 * ** __Term 3: 1st August - 7th October 2011.__ **

__**Performing Arts Festival Earthquake Fundraiser**__ **Monday 19th September** media type="custom" key="10541812"

Maaka Tau, our Kapahaka Tutor, has organized this special event and he invited cultural groups from around Christchurch to take part. Entry by gold coin and all donations collected at the door go directly to the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal to assistwith the rebuild of the city.

media type="custom" key="10404810" We made butterfly pop up cards to thank our North Loburn penpals for our lovely day with them.

__**THURS **____**DAY 1st SEPTEMBER.Pony rides at NORTH LOBURN School **__**__,__ where lovely Mrs Connelly, her students and their parents organised ** media type="custom" key="10337016" ||  || This is our new Inquiry topic for July, August and September. These links are useful [|NZ] [|our place] [|Aotearoa] [|kiwi] [|Lyttelton] [|history] [|NZ heritage] [|maps] Daffodil day and junior school assembly 26th August. media type="custom" key="10282707" NZ Author Maria Gill came to share her books with us- wonderful! media type="custom" key="10262753" We had a lesson with Jessica from St John's Ambulance. media type="custom" key="10175197" The Governor General visited LMS on [|5th August] click to see photo!
 * a fun, quake free day for their pen pals from room 4 ****LMS. **
 * THANK YOU for your kindness! **
 * **Our Place, Lyttelton NZ and Beyond**

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media type="custom" key="10038071" ||  || Kia Ora Mrs Rossie and Room 4 Thank you so much for the fantastic book you sent - we were amazed at all the work you had done to put it together. AWESOME!!!! We recognised many of the buildings that once were standing in Lyttelton and felt sad that they have been damaged and in some cases beyond repair. Most of us have not been to Lyttelton since the EQ. We live out here with our heads in the sand really. Thank you for putting us in the picture. We think you are fantastic artists and we were very interested in the history of your place. We talked about how the early settlers made their way to North Loburn (mainly Irish settlers) and used to travel to Lyttelton to work and return for weekends to be with their families. When you come to visit you will get an idea of how far they travelled and they did not have good roads or cars. They really were a hardy bunch!! We have letters completed and ready to send to you. We will try to do some good drawings to go with our letters for you. We are busy planning our lovely day with you on September 1st. What a lovely time we are having planning this fun day!!!! We are looking forward to meeting you and sharing our place with you. Keep fingers crossed it will be a fine day. Hope you are enjoying the snow!!! We came back to school today (Wednesday) and had a great time throwing snowballs at our principal. He laughed!!! It is not long before September 1st and we are checking our calendar to count down the days. We hope you are too!!! We will probably correspond via e-mail from now on as we have speeches to write and that will take some time. Arohanui Mrs Connelly and Kahikatea ||  || = Simplified for primary school children. = **October** Major Alfred Hornbrook’s Mitre Hotel opens in Lyttelton, first recorded commercial enterprise. Mr William Pratt set up Lyttelton’s first general store and bakehouse on Canterbury Street, (later moving to London Street and then founding the store in Christchurch that became Ballantynes). Railway tunnel started, 17th December. With the closing of the Cornish tin mines in U.K. many miners emigrate and settle in Lyttelton to work on the construction of the rail tunnel. Forbes hardware store is established on Norwich Quay. **1875** The Lyttelton Time ball station begins working (until 1934). JT Norton’s shop and factory is established on Oxford Street, later Lyttelton Bread Company; renowned for egg preserver also Bread improver: //Dorex.// Mahar’s Drapery at 33 London Street (‘New Zealand Clothing Co.) is established. The first car is imported into the South Island. Scott departs from Lyttelton in //Terra Nova//. One thousand men work at Lyttelton’s Port. Mrs Gladys Boyd and Mrs J.A. Gilmour. Centenary celebrations mark the //First Four Ships// arrival. The Harbour Board open new tower block offices: Shadbolt House, Norwich Quay. St Saviours Church (est. 1885) in West Lyttelton, was gifted to Cathedral Grammar school, Christchurch, St Saviours pensioner cottages are built in its place. New Lyttelton Harbour Board / Port Company building constructed on corner of Dublin St and Norwich Quay (site of Sinclair Melbourne and Co**.)** Lyttelton Harbour Board became the Port Company. Lyttelton Oral History Project is undertaken. Grubb cottage (purchased by C.C.C. in 2006) is restored. St Joseph’s School closed after 140 years of Catholic education in Lyttelton. A lot of historic brick and stone buildings collapse or are so badly damaged, including: The Lyttelton Time ball station, Holy Trinity Anglican church, St. Joseph’s Catholic church, St. John’s Presbyterian (Union) church, the former Lyttelton Borough Council Chambers, the Harbour Light theatre, the Empire/ Royal/ Lyttelton/Canterbury/ British/ Hotels, Forbes building, Norton’s building, Mazey’s building, Bundy’s building (Lyttelton Coffee Company), The Volcano café and Lava bar, Ground delicatessen (former Albion hotel), the original Lyttelton Harbour Board building, the original Lyttelton Post Office, Lyttelton Police Station and many others (most were subsequently demolished). Timeline compiled by Liza Rossie. (Updated July 2011). ||  ||
 * __**Email from North Loburn School Pen pals; our visit to see them is on THURSDAY 1st SEPTEMBER. **__
 * We need to wear gum boots and bring bike helmets, lunch boxes and drink bottles. **
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 * 1770 February 16th ** Captain J. Cook passed headland and named it //Banks Island//.
 * 1809 ** Captain S. Chase in //Pegasus// discovers it is a peninsula.
 * 1835 ** First whaling ships operate from Lyttelton.
 * 1847 ** E.G. Wakefield and J.R. Godley meet in England in preparation of the formation of the Canterbury Association.
 * 1849 July Town survey of Lyttelton begins the construction of Lyttelton. The first Harbour work was the construction of a 150x15 foot jetty constructed by ** Donald Gollan, **John Grubb**, James McNeil and the Allan brothers (from Port Levy).
 * 1849 December 12th ** Two and a half million acres are reserved for the Canterbury settlement by the New Zealand Company.
 * 1850 April 12th ** Robert Godley comes to Lyttelton; his house is built on Sumner Rd, where the Plunket rooms are now.
 * 1850 September **// The First Four Ships // : //Charlotte Jane, Randolph, Cressy and Sir George Seymour// leave Plymouth, England for Lyttelton. **1850 December 16th** the first colonists ship arrives in Lyttelton; Within 12 months three thousand people have arrived in Lyttelton.
 * 1851 July 19th ** Lyttelton Volunteer Fire Brigade is formed.
 * 1851 August 14th ** The first meeting of the Canterbury Association is called by Godley at the Mitre Hotel to discuss where the provincial seat should be; for the first three years of establishment Lyttelton is the dominant locality for the Canterbury Association settlement.
 * 1851 December ** The //Lyttelton Times// is the first daily paper sold.
 * 1851 ** The first gaol is built (a temporary building). The first school is opened in Lyttelton. //Grubb cottage// is built on London Street
 * 1853 ** The first Anglican Church is built on Winchester Street.
 * 1856 ** Lyttelton’s first wool cargo leaves for Britain.
 * 1857 ** Christchurch’s population becomes bigger than that of Lyttelton.
 * 1860 ** The second Anglican Church, Holy Trinity, is built to replace the first, which became structurally unsound due to the green timber used.
 * 1862 ** The first Lyttelton Borough Council was formed.
 * 1863 ** N.Z’s first telegraph is sent between Lyttelton and Christchurch.
 * 1864 ** St. John’s Presbyterian Church is built on Winchester Street**.**
 * 1865 ** St. Joseph’s Catholic Church is opened on Winchester Street.
 * 1866 ** The Wesleyan Methodist Church is moved to Winchester St**.**
 * 1867 ** The Lyttelton-Christchurch rail tunnel is completed opened on November 9th.
 * 1868, May 28th ** Lyttelton becomes a borough led by Dr. Donald.
 * 1870 October 24th ** The Great fire of Lyttelton starts at the Queens Hotel, London Street, demolishing 74 buildings, most of the central business area between London St., Norwich Quay, Oxford St. and Canterbury St.
 * 1871 ** The HLG (Hard Labour Gang from the Gaol) started work covering up gullies, levelling, paving, asphalting and guttering. A lot of the brick barrel stormwater gutters, drains and walls they built remain today.
 * 1872 ** Lyttelton Borough School opens on Oxford St.
 * 1874 ** Lyttelton Post Office is opened on Norwich Quay (W.H Clayton); also Canterbury Kilwinning lodge was opened. Typhoid, scarlet fever and diphtheria are dangerous diseases spreading through Lyttelton.
 * 1879 ** Graving dock building work starts.
 * 1880 ** Lyttelton Police Station is built, (still operating here until 2011 EQ)**.**
 * 1883 ** **January 3rd** Lyttelton Graving Dock is opened.
 * 1883 – 1901 ** Lyttelton is the country’s principle exporting port.
 * 1885 ** Gun emplacements and the Torpedo boat are introduced in Lyttelton.
 * 1887 ** Lyttelton Borough Council Chambers and Lyttelton West School are completed.
 * 1895 ** The first regular inter-island ferry //Penguin,// operated by the Union Steamship Company, runs between Wellington and Lyttelton.
 * 1898 ** Norwich Quay and London Street are tarred. Gaslights introduced.
 * 1899 ** Troops leave Lyttelton for the South African wars.
 * 1901 November ** Captain Robert Falcon Scott arrives in //Discovery//.
 * 1902 ** New Fire Brigade station/library is built on corner of Sumner Rd and Oxford Street.
 * 1904 ** The Lyttelton orphanage is destroyed by fire. Tennis courts are built on some of the land behind the site.
 * 1906 ** St John’s Ambulance extend to Lyttelton.
 * 1908 ** Shackleton departs for the Antarctic on //Nimrod//.
 * 1910 ** Lyttelton Kindergarten first established.
 * 1911 ** The British Sailor’s Society builds its institution on Gladstone Quay (now Lyttelton Museum).
 * 1912 ** Little Brenchley Rd is renamed Cornwall Rd after the many Cornish miners who lived in the vicinity. Old Governor’s Bay Road is renamed Cressy Terrace. Upper Reserve Terrace becomes Randolph Terrace.
 * 1914 ** Troops leave Lyttelton in //Tahiti// and //Athenic// for the First World War.
 * 1915 ** The Colonists Hall is given to the Borough School extra classroom.
 * 1917 ****// Harbour Light //**** //Theatre// **, London Street, opens.
 * 1918 ** Influenza epidemic.
 * 1919 ** Electricity is first installed in Lyttelton.
 * 1922 ** Lyttelton prison is demolished**.**
 * 1925 ** Quail island leper colony is closed.
 * 1928 ** The Domain (play park) Oxford Street (Gaol site) is opened.
 * 1930’s ** The great depression. Unemployed work gangs construct Days Road, Upham Terrace, Lyttelton Playground and the new Mercy Convent.
 * 1933 ** Mrs E.R. McCombs becomes first woman MP for NZ representing Lyttelton. //Cressy House// maternity hospital is opened.
 * 1940 ** The first troop ships, //Dunera// and //Sobieski//, leave Lyttelton for W.W.2. The Secondary dept. of Lyttelton District High School is closed.
 * 1941 ** February 21st the Lyttelton school on Oxford Street (originally Lyttelton Borough School, then Lyttelton district High School) was officially renamed **Lyttelton Main School**, the old brick Lyttelton District High School was demolished by March.
 * 1943 ** Colonist Hall (being used as LMS manual classrooms) demolished.
 * 1944 ** The Post Office’s clock and bell tower is demolished. As is Godley’s house on Sumner Rd and the Plunket Rooms are built.
 * 1945 ** Lyttelton celebrates VE day, end of WW2. Lyttelton Library (above fire station on Sumner Rd) becomes ‘Free, non subscription’.
 * 1947 ** The first two women councillors are elected:
 * 1948 ** Lyttelton Kindergarten moves to its present Winchester Street site.
 * 1950 ** Dr Charles Upham, Lyttelton’s G.P dies. It is decided to build the //Upham Clock// above Oxford Street in his memory.
 * 1951 ** The Waterfront lockout lasts 151 days.
 * 1962 ** The Lyttelton Borough celebrates its centenary.
 * 1964 February 27th ** The opening of the Lyttelton Road tunnel. Also Lyttelton’s first Supermarket opens. These start the decline in small family businesses in Lyttelton. Trinity Hall opens on Winchester St as a replacement to the old Sunday school building.
 * November 29th ** Cashin Quay is opened. (After the reclamation of Buckley’s Beach).
 * 1965 ** Lyttelton’s //roll-on roll-off// ferry starts.
 * 1966 **// Wahine, // the largest vehicle ferry in the world commences Lyttelton to Wellington service.
 * 1967 ** Lyttelton Fire Brigade move to the new station on London Street.
 * 1976 ** September 26th sees the last roll-on roll-off ferry service from Lyttelton in //Rangatira.//
 * 1978 ** The Time ball Station restoration is completed allowing NZ Historic Places Trust to open it to the public.
 * 1979 ** Lyttelton Museum is moved to Gladstone Quay.
 * 1982 ** The old Harbour Light Theatre building, built in 1916 originally as a Cinema and Live Theatre closed as a cinema in 1982.
 * 1985 February ** Container crane collapsed. **June** oil storage tank explodes.
 * 1987 ** The original Lyttelton Post office on Norwich Quay closes, moves to London Street/ Canterbury Street corner (now Lyttelton library).
 * 1989 ** 31st October, Lyttelton Borough Council ceased to exist when it became part of Banks Peninsula District Council (B.P.D.C.)
 * 1990 ** Bells Pharmacy takes over from Mr. Collett’s Chemist, which had served Lyttelton for 2 generations.
 * 1991 ** The ‘Lyttelton’ (historic steam tug) became the property of the Tug Lyttelton Preservation Society on the 26th October 1991 when she was sold to it by the Lyttelton Port Company, the successors of the Board, for the nominal sum of $1.00.
 * 1992 ** The Harbour Light Cinema was converted and became the Harbour Light Licensed Entertainment & Function Venue.
 * 1994 ** Project Port Lyttelton, community group started.
 * 1995 ** Busy C’s Pre School established.
 * 1999 ** Lyttelton Library moves into the former Post office/Credit union building on corner of London and Canterbury Streets (from the former Borough Council Chambers building when it is sold by the B.P.D.C.)
 * 2000 ** Lyttelton celebrates 150 years**.** October storm hits Lyttelton and destroys the new marina and breakwater.
 * 2005 ** September, Lyttelton Farmers Market is established.
 * 2006 ** On 6 March 2006, Banks Peninsula District Council closes when it becomes part of Christchurch City Council.
 * 2009 ** August 14th, the Lyttelton Historic Area is established.
 * 2010 ** September 4th A lot of Lyttelton’s historic buildings are damaged in the Canterbury Earthquake.
 * 2011 ** February 22nd and June 13th Major earthquakes are centred in the Lyttelton area.