Image of the week: 15 – 20 October

15 October 2018

The unveiling of the Queen Victoria statue in Victoria Square, 1903.

  • Image of the week 15th October 2018

    The unveiling of the Queen Victoria statue in Victoria Square, 1903; Henry Francis Wigram papers (FD1391.0002.0004). Macmillan Brown Library, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Formally known as Market Square or Market Place, Victoria Square once included the likes of markets, a post office, immigration barracks and a women’s prison. In 1896-7, the area was developed into a park for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubliee and the statue, unveiled in 1903, commemorates the Golden Jubilee of the founding of the Canterbury Settlement and is a memorial for soldiers killed in the South African War.

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