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Bay Harbour News Wednesday August 30 2023 18 TREASURES FROM THE PAST Growing up in Lyttelton in the 1960s: Suzanne and Annette Bachop riding horses in Lyttelton, September 30, 1961. Te Ūaka The Lyttelton Museum ref.12672.1 https://www. teuaka.org.nz/ online-collection/1133363 Suzanne Bachop wearing Lyttelton Marine Band uniform, with cornet. Te Ūaka The Lyttelton Museum ref.12704.1 https://www. teuaka.org.nz/ online-collection/1133396 THIS WEEK’S local photograph features teenagers Suzanne and Annette Bachop with their horses on Winchester St, Lyttelton, on September 30, 1961. So what were the girls doing with their equine friends in the middle of the road? The occasion was a fair at the Anglican Church of the Most Holy Trinity, known locally as simply Holy Trinity. Suzanne, with her retired trotter Flora Dawn, and Annette, with her little pony Ace, gave penny rides to children at the fair to raise money for the church. Behind the girls the Upham Clock and Lyttelton gaol site are clearly visible, and the low density of housing on the hillside is before the wave of infill building of later decades. The Bachop girls lived with their family first at Hawkhurst Rd, later moving to Jacksons Tce, and attended Lyttelton Main School. They were part of the extended Bachop family which has made its mark in both Lyttelton and wider afield, including Suzanne’s cousins of national rugby fame. Their father, Tom Bachop, bought a nine-acre paddock near the start of the Bridle Path – at one time they grazed as many as five horses there. The girls delivered papers around Lyttelton on their horses; Annette collected the Christchurch Press from an office on Oxford St and Suzanne met the 4.30pm train from Christchurch at the Lyttelton Railway Station for The Star newspapers. Bin good with rubbish Put general rubbish and the items below in your red bin All lids All compostable and biodegradable bags and packaging Soft plastic items including packets, wrappers and biscuit trays Takeaway cups and containers By putting the right stuff in your red bin, you’re keeping other bins free of contaminants. If in doubt use the handy look-up tool on our app or website. ccc.govt.nz/redbin
Wednesday August 30 2023 Bay Harbour News TREASURES FROM THE PAST 19 Horses, theatre and delivery rounds There was also time for fun. On a weekend the girls might go up the Bridle Path with frypan and potatoes and cook their lunch in the hills (free range eggs and foraged fruit would add to the feast if they were lucky). Hot summer days meant fishing and swimming off the wharves or at Corsair Bay. Suzanne loved sports and notably played hockey for Canterbury for a number of years. In our second photograph, Suzanne is holding her cornet in her Lyttelton Marine Band uniform on February 23, 1964, the day the Lyttelton Road Tunnel was opened. It also happened to be her 16th birthday! With her fellow band members Suzanne went into the tunnel a few hundred metres in formation, playing a march, before making their way out and up to the Upham Memorial Garden to take part in the official opening ceremony. After leaving school Suzanne was employed briefly at the Lichfield Shirt Factory and local supermarket and then with the Post Office delivering telegrams and undertaking relief work. A pushbike was provided for the rounds but Suzanne wisely upgraded with her own Yamaha 55cc scooter to take on Lyttelton’s steep hills. When she delivered a telegram to the Saxon Hotel on Norwich Quay she would be given a refreshing raspberry and lemonade. When she took a telegram to the Holmdale, the coastal trader which regularly serviced the Chatham Islands, she remembers a welcome cup of hot vegetable soup from the cook on a cold day. Suzanne married Frank Moloney in 1968, who was the manager and projectionist at the Harbour Light Theatre for a time in the 1960s. He ran other small theatres in Diamond Harbour, Cheviot, and Methven, and his career also took him to Timaru, Wellington, and Rotorua. Suzanne served 41 years as payroll clerk and store supervisor at Sinclair Melbourne (which later became Lyttelton Engineering), a time she remembers with fondness for the fun had alongside hard work. Now retired, they live in Heathcote, just through the tunnel that Suzanne proudly took part in opening. We are grateful to Suzanne for sharing some of her wonderful reminiscences of growing up in the 1960s in Ōhinehou Lyttelton. We also extend our sincere condolences for the recent passing of her sister Annette. Join the rebuild Enjoying the regular stories from our collection? Just imagine what we could offer with a physical Museum! Your donation can help make it a reality. 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