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From Timber Town to City Suburb is the first general history to be written about Papanui. This comprehensive and entertaining story explores the area's very earliest days as a timber workers' settlement, its development into a centre for small farming and horticulture, and the many changes that saw it transition over the decades to the thriving Christchurch suburb we know today. We're given a unique opportunity to look back in time at the changing designs and approaches to the building and development of churches, shops, schools, and businesses, forms of entertainment, culture, and transport, as society progressed from the 1850s to 2015. Within the book's extensively illustrated pages we can also read the reminiscences of Papanui residents from its earliest days through to the suburb's experiences of the devastating 2010-11 Christchurch earthquakes. This book will captivate residents and non-residents alike with its stories and accounts of the events and people that made and continue to make Papanui such an important suburb.