Canterbury Cricket Week ceremonies. As of 2017, there have been 166 Canterbury Cricket Weeks held. The week continued through the Second World War with cricket being held on the ground each season. The politician and journalist Bill Deedes wrote in 2000: "while the Second World War was on, I consoled myself by thinking that Canterbury Cricket Week, founded in 1842 with its tents and famous lime tree, unchanging in a changing world, was the sort of thing I was in business to preserve." Traditionally Canterbury Cricket Week has included a Ladies day with prizes being awarded for the best hat on the day.
The Owl Tree of a tree.' It was amongst the titles used in the 2011 Reading Crusade at Christchurch, amongst books recommended for lower primary children by Paul Jennings. and has appeared on numerous school reading lists. The Owl Tree The Owl Tree is a novella by Jenny Nimmo which was released in 1997. The story is about a boy, Joe, who tries to save an owl tree which his grandmother Granny Diamond is fond of and her neighbor, Mr Rock, who intends to cut down as it is too tall and blocking out the sunlight beneath it. It received the 1997 Smarties