Ravenscar

Return on 2.25pm Coastliner 840 bus. Saturday, April 9: Ravenscar and Robin Hood's Bay circular walk, 8.3 miles, moderate. Park/start at 10.30am from Raven Hall Road, Ravenscar, grid ref NZ 980014. Saturday, April 16: Blencathra and other Wainwrights, ...

As luck would have it, Barkley made landfall near Ravenscar - shortly before 01.30am and nearly an hour after the other crews had landed. It was dark and the weather was not good: there was cloud down to 1,500 feet and the generally poor visibility was ...

Upon the death of Mr Hammond's wife in 1895 the estate was sold to the Ravenscar Estate Company for £10,000; the hall and grounds were sold separately for hotel development. Three-hundred men were immediately employed to lay drains, construct roads ...

Ravenscar Trust Co-Chairs, Jim and Dr Susan Wakefield and Canterbury Museum Director, Anthony Wright have welcomed today's decision by Christchurch City Council to gift land to Canterbury Museum for the proposed Ravenscar House Museum.

Ownership of the home and collection was transferred to the charitable Ravenscar Trust in 1999 with a plan for it to be gifted to the city in the future. The 2011 Canterbury earthquakes destroyed the home, but the collection was saved and put into storage.

The plan for the collection's new home involves the Ravenscar Trust paying for construction of the $13m museum space and underground car park with insurance proceeds from the Scarborough Head house. The completed building and land would then be ...