Take a walk through central Ōtautahi Christchurch and discover life in the city during the late 1800s.
This self-guided living history walk takes you on a journey of what life would have been like for the people of Ōtautahi Christchurch during the late 1800s.
Taking around an hour and covering 2km of fully accessible pedestrian areas, the tour begins outside Tūranga, takes you up to Victoria Square and follows the Ōtākaro Avon River to Cashel Street. It then loops around up High Street to Cathedral Square and finishes back at Tūranga.
Created by Christchurch City Council Archives in collaboration with Christchurch City Libraries.
Photographs and content sourced from Canterbury Stories and used with permission from the Canterbury Museum, National Library and the Christchurch Archaeology Project.
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