Campsite beside West Coast road

About this image

DescriptionCampsite beside West Coast roadMap^[1]ContributorMary Moffitt

Shown in this image

EventCampsite beside West Coast roadCamping

From Facebook

Date Created30th October 2019CommentsPam Englefield-Absolum No aprons either.

Jessie Guy What lovely ladies and trying so hard to cope, and guess they did. Real pioneers

Mary Moffitt They are on the side of the road on their way to the West Coast in 1908. It must have taken more than a day from Christchurch.
Maybe the men are dealing with the horses.

Alan Holland What has happened to all these campsites ,in the sixties there were many on both the Lewis and Arthur's pass routes to the west coast , also there were access lanes to water at bridges for horses and water troughs .

Mary Moffitt They probably managed without aprons the way the nuns did - up to the fifties at least. When we went to music at the convent on Saturdays, the sisters were often cleaning. Still in long habits then, they hauled the top skirt up to their waists from the hem, so only the insides of the heavy fabric would get dusty etc. They wore equally heavy underskirts, still reaching down to the ground, which were more likely to get most the dirt on them.
By the 1970s the sisters were wearing very simple frocks.
I was in awe of how they had managed with the wimple and several other pieces of headwear which was starched to cardboard consistency. Only the face from the eyebrows straight down to the sides of the chin was visible. Movement was constrained by this. It must have taken an age to get used to such a heavy form of dress.
When was the rule changed from the long heavy habit to the short, sensible one for the times?

OCR Text Transcription Edit Edit +-Close

Editing is temporarily disabled

Cancel Edit

Start typing here to find a location	Latitude	Longitude	Zoom	Actions

loading google map....

Save Cancel

Menu

Campsite beside West Coast road

Editing is temporarily disabled