The Family travel book, 1864-1902
Summary Subtitled: The Family Sketch book. Being a record of excursions of interest made by various members of the family.
Contents include handwritten accounts and copies of letters recounting local and international trips and journeys mostly made in the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s by the Bridge and Griffin families. Local outings include trips to the Peninsula, Lake Ellesmere and Leeston, Hanmer Springs, Waimakariri Gorge Bridge, as well as Lake Ohau and Mount Cook. Journeys further afield include London, Melbourne and Brussels.
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- Account of journey from Melbourne to Timaru in the winter of 1864
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- Account of a trip over the Peninsula (Bank's), January 1879
- A drive to Lake Ellesmere from Leeston
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- Trip to Wellington
- Description of Lake Ohau and surrounding country, 1888
- Trip to Mount Cook, 1888
- Account of a visit to the Hanmer Plains Hot Springs during May 1889
- A day in the life of a surveyor's wife
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- Extracts from diary letter of W.W. Griffin written during his voyage to England in SS Fifeshire, February to April 1893
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- Letters from W.W. Griffin to various members of the Bridge family recording his experiences. Includes a trip to Brussels, the fields of Waterloo, and Diamond Jubilee naval review, 1893 to 1897
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- Letters describing visits to Rotorua, 1899
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- Notes of a trip to Wellington and Wanganui River taken by C.H. and M. Bridge during December, January, 1901-1902
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Collection location Archive 334
Publication information Unpublished
Additional information
In 1850 Charles Joseph Bridge came to Lyttelton on the Randolph. He returned to England in 1854 to marry Elizabeth Frances Hastings. They farmed at what is now Opawa until 1862, when they moved to farm at Southbridge. Charles Hastings Bridge, known as Hastings, eldest son of Charles and Elizabeth, married Marian (or Marion) Griffin (donor of the family papers) in 1880. Charles Hastings Bridge died in 1935, and Marion in 1941.
Related pages
- Diary written on board the Randolph, at Opawa and at Southbridge by Charles Joseph Bridge. Archive 205.
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