Old Invercargill

Language: English

Published by Craig Printing, Invercargill, 2013

0908629796 / 9780908629794

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This copy appears to be unread. In this illustrated history of Old Invercargill, John Hall-Jones considers himself extremely fortunate to have inherited his father’s extensive collection of photographs of early Invercargill. But buildings need people in them to bring them to life and here again he has been fortunate to have inherited his father’s records of the early descriptions of the town by the pioneers of Invercargill. Here is Bishop Harper’s account of a most disturbing night in the first hotel in Invercargill and Sherwood Roberts’ delightful story of the house warming parties at Invercargill’s first two hotels. Later comes the tale of a famous character in the early town, the ‘Black Doctor’, who was neither black nor a doctor. Then there are the stories of how the fire brigade suffered the embarrassment of burning its own fire station to the ground; the collection of over 1,000 ‘Birds, Beasts, Insects etc’, in Andrew McKenzie’s pie shop, which was the very beginnings of the Southland Museum; Todd’s auction market, where for many years town and country have met to auction and recycle their second-hand goods; the crisis that hit Invercargill when it voted to be ‘dry’. (Publisher).…

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Title
Old Invercargill
Author
Hall-Jones, John
Publisher
Craig Printing, Invercargill
Publication year
2013
Condition
As New
Binding
Soft cover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0908629796
ISBN 13
9780908629794
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller catalogs
Aotearoa, New Zealand, History, Non Fiction

The Secret Bookshop

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