Friends of Ferrymead
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Location
Ferrymead Heritage Park, 50 Ferrymead Park Drive, Heathcote, Christchurch 8022
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Opening hours
Ferrymead Heritage Park open days - Thursday to Sunday 10 am to 4.30 pm. Curragh, the Friends of Ferrymead's HQ, is manned by the Friends during the weekends and special event days.
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Admission
Cost is the entry fee to Ferrymead Heritage Park (see their website).
The Friends of Ferrymead Inc. is a not-for-profit charitable organisation and is one of the societies at Ferrymead Heritage Park in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The society is based in "Curragh", a restored two-storey 1865 house that was originally in St Albans and was moved to Ferrymead in 1972. Curragh sits in the Park's replica Edwardian township and is set up to portray an Edwardian family's home with the Victorian and Edwardian technologies of a working coal range (1876), electric lights, a working 1893 wall telephone connected to the former Kaikoura manual exchange in the Park's Post Office, a working pianola, taps on the high-pressure water system and a flushing toilet in the back garden's outside toilet.
Curragh's downstairs has a central hallway, a master bedroom and drawing room (both with working fireplaces), a dining room with a working gramophone. The kitchen has an icebox and a working electric annunciator that's connected to the back gate and the dining and drawing rooms. Food is cooked on and in the coal range. Upstairs there's a landing with a wooden trunk that arrived in Lyttelton in 1850 on the Cressy, one of the First Four Ships. The two bedrooms are set up for at least 5 children. In the back garden, there is a washhouse with a working copper, wringer, mangle, water-powered spinner, taps, laundry tubs and a bathtub.
During weekends and special event days, Curragh is manned by costumed duty members and most of the rooms are open for visitors to look through. On other days, the hallway doors are closed and visitors can look through the glass panels in the doors.
Next to Curragh, the society also has a small one-bedroom 1860s house called "Stewart Street Cottage" (originally from Addington). Further down the township, opposite the stables, the society holds a huge collection of haberdashery and clothing items in "Brittendens' Drapery", which the society opens to visitors whenever possible. Over in the front of the stables, "Sawyer's China & Toys" is a little static display shop which has a small display of china as well as lots of toys and dolls houses from the society's collection.
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