New Regent Street Precinct
Pastel Spanish Mission shopping lane of forty two-storey shops, cafes and a heritage tram line.
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This guide to New Regent Street in Christchurch starts on the first of April, nineteen thirty-two, when a company chairman addressed the crowd at the opening of forty new shops in the depths of the Depression. It follows the row's appetite upstairs, to a cafe where painters, Rita Angus among them, hung their work on the walls. Best heard standing mid-street, where you can see both the shopfronts and the windows above them.
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