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Story: Visitors’ opinions about New Zealand

Cathedral Square, Christchurch, 1867

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Cathedral Square, Christchurch, 1867

Many visitors to New Zealand in the second half of the 19th century described the country as very English. Christchurch was consistently said to be the most English place of all. These are the park-like surrounds of Cathedral Square in 1867.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Samuel Heath Head Collection (PA-Group-00261)

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by Samuel Heath Head

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Jock Phillips, Visitors’ opinions about New Zealand – The ‘Britain of the South’, 1860–1900, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/37102/cathedral-square-christchurch-1867 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 23 May 2012.