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world of fashion the gentlemen and women of the Summer Ships would be
leaving behind or, where budgets permitted, be taking with them, to their
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Passengers
from the Cressy landing at Port Lyttelton, 1850. (Reproduced with kind
permission of the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch)
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Pioneers
who arrived in Lyttelton, Canterbury aboard the Charlotte Jane.
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Pioneers who arrived in Lyttelton, Canterbury aboard the Cressy.
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Some
of the passengers who arrived in Lyttelton, Canterbury aboard the Randolph.
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Thankfully
today's picnics are quite a bit less formal.
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Mills
Osborne Hotel (left) and Forester's Hall (right) on Oxford Terrace in
the 1870's. (Reproduced with kind permission of the Canterbury Museum,
Christchurch)
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