Throwback Thursday: Urban sprawl
The "baby boom" of the post-World War II years sparked a rash of house building.
New suburbs sprang up and essential services spread ever further afield, even to Diamond Harbour. This was still a rural village in 1954 but was beginning to take on the appearance of a Christchurch suburb.
A regular link with Lyttelton by launch and frequent passenger trains through the tunnel made it feasible for city workers to live at Diamond Harbour.
Here building nears completion on the community centre and two family homes, while workers lay a telephone cable beside the road to Charteris Bay.
🧩😏 Riddle me this, Neighbours…
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Do you think you know the answer?
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