Ferrymead – A history of an innovation!
Ferrymead has always been a hub for problem solvers. Media Suite's resident (and unofficial) historian, Wayne, goes right back to the Four Ships. Ferrymead is a suburb with a story, and it's one set apart with human resourcefulness and innovative accomplishment. What better spot then, at that point, for an inventive programming organization to set up base? A long time back in 1850, 790 individuals showed up at Lyttelton on four boats. Their objective was to make another life close by neighborhood Maori and frontier pilgrims previously settled on the Canterbury Plains. It was no simple inquire. Just to begin, they needed to explore a respectable estimated slope and stream to get to their new settlement area - all conveying their common belongings on their backs. December 28, 1850: Four ships land at Lyttelton (Christchurch City Libraries) This was only the main in a progression of steady difficulties that they, and those approaching a short time later, would look wh...