Due to popular demand we are holding another night for this fabulous Heritage talk. Join Russell Garbutt from Central Otago Heritage Trust to hear the story about the coal mine fire, the background and the community effort to rescue the miners including a bicycle. [...]
Early in the morning of the 14th July, 1906, the sleeping town of Alexandra was awakened by the furious ringing of the fire-bell at the Alexandra Fire Brigade in Skird Street. It was the beginning of a momentous day for the entire town.Russell Garbutt from Central [...]
Join Dr Eva Forster-Garbutt, Area Manager for the Otago Southland regional office at Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, as she unpacks the fascinating story of wallpaper during the goldfields era drawn from her recently completed PhD thesis. During Otago’s gold rush in the 1860s, thousands of people [...]