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Welcome to Oamaru and the Waitaki District.
Our annual Victorian celebrations are one of New Zealand’s
top heritage events. They are an opportunity to have fun,
dress Victorian, participate in race day, join the grand parade
or Victorian ball, go to the garden party, or just soak up the
atmosphere - an opportunity to celebrate the past and present.
Our district has a rich heritage of fine Oamaru stone buildings
forming an authentic backdrop to the yearly festivities. These
include the Opera House, Museum, Gallery and all the historic
buildings in Harbour Street – the Southern Hemisphere’s largest
time capsule!
Our extended area includes the mighty Waitaki River framed in
rolling landscapes and dotted with holiday homes. The panorama
of our district is huge - lakes, Elephant Rocks, Macraes gold
mine, Moeraki Boulders, farmlands and the mountains. The
arts flourish and we value a healthy environment, independence
and sustainability.
Early settlers such as Sir John McKenzie, Thomas Brydone, and
Sir Arnold Nordmeyer not only set foundation stones for our
district, they were leaders for our nation and the world. Now,
as in the past, we are a constructive, friendly, energetic and
interactive community – and it shows.
Alex and Heather Familton
Mayor and Mayoress
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Welcome to the 2011 Oamaru Victorian Heritage Celebrations.
I am delighted to be part of the team that has put together this
programme of events.
I thank everyone who has taken time to stage an event, and all
who come from far and wide to participate.
These celebrations acknowledge our heritage and the attractions
of Oamaru and the Waitaki District. They are something we
should all be proud of. I hope you enjoy the events of the week,
and we thank you for joining us in the celebrations.
Sally Hope,
Chair,
Oamaru Victorian Heritage Celebrations Committee
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Contact Us
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Oamaru Victorian Heritage Celebrations
P.O. Box 580, Oamaru 9444
Ph 03 434 5385, [email protected]
2 Harbour Street www.historicoamaru.co.nz
Event bookings - TicketDirect
New Zealand’s ticketing people for all entertainment,
sports and events. Service fees apply on all ticket sales.
Ph 0800 224 224, www.ticketdirect.co.nz
Oamaru Opera House
90 Thames Street, Oamaru
Ph 03 433 0770 www.oamaruoperahouse.co.nz
Oamaru i-SITE
1Thames Street, Oamaru Ph 03 434 1656,
[email protected] www.visitoamaru.co.nz
Network Waitaki Victorian Fête Day
Co-ordinator Faye Ormandy
2 Harbour Street, Oamaru Ph 03 434 5385,
[email protected] www.historicoamaru.co.nz
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Join in the fun and add to the atmosphere by being dressed
in Victorian costume. Be a gentleman of distinction, a lady of
wealth or a simple colonial settler. Clothing and accessories are
available for every member of the family.
Victorian Wardrobe 4B Harbour Street
Thursdays 10am-3pm
Daily 14 – 19 Nov only 10am - 4pm
[email protected] or by appointment
Oamaru Operatic Society Wardrobe
17 Tyne Street
Open Mondays from 25 October - 20 December 7.30pm - 8.30pm
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Pre-Celebrations Events
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The Most Southern Ordinary Tour
Come and see off the wheelmen and women who will depart
Oamaru on Saturday 12th November for an intrepid journey
on penny-farthings and veteran cycles, touring Stewart Island
and the lower South Island. A journey of 245km.
Oamaru Cycle Works Wansbeck Street 10am
The Great Trash ‘n Treasure Garage Sale
Discover tomorrow’s heritage today at North Otago’s largest
garage sale. Stalls range from home wares to handcrafts. Have
a rummage, bag a bargain. You may even find a white elephant
– or possibly a penguin!!
Oamaru Opera House, 90 Thames Street
Sunday 13th Nov 9am – 3pm. Admission free
Rahman Trio Chamber Music Recitals
The Royal Overseas League brings you awardwinning UK musicians Sophia Rahman, piano, Alice
Neary, cello, and Robert Plane, clarinet. A charity
performance in aid of Hearts & Hands for Haiti.
Burnside Homestead, via Enfield, Tuesday 15th November,
2.30pm, $15; 8pm, $25. Students $10 for either recital. Bookings
essential. Call Bruce Albiston, 03 432 4194 or Bernard Wilkinson,
03 434 5514.
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Victorian Oamaru
Explore Victorian Oamaru’s superb architecture, home to
artists, art galleries, and fine foods and wines. Home also to
many small businesses and markets supplying a vast array of
goods.
Harbour, Tyne, Tees and Itchen Streets
Heritage Radio and Museum
A century of music broadcast live. Call in, have chat to the
team, and see the display of vintage radios.
6 Itchen Street, open daily 10am–4pm.
Admission free.
Victorian Heritage Centre
For Heritage Celebrations information and a display featuring
Victorian Oamaru’s harbour.
2 Harbour Street, open daily 10am–4pm.
8th Oamaru Stone Sculpting Symposium
Watch talented New Zealand sculptors get a chip off their
boulder to create unique works in stone. If you’d like to take one
home, bid in the auction starting on Saturday 19th November.
Contact Matt King (03) 439 5087.
Takaro Park, 5th–20th November. Admission free.
Janet Frame’s Oamaru
Visit 56 Eden Street, home of New Zealand’s most famous
author, Janet Frame, from 1931-1943.
56 Eden Street, open daily 2pm–4pm. Admission $5.
Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony
Experience Oamaru’s blue penguin centre by day and by night.
During the day take a Penguin Walk into the breeding colony,
and then come back in the evening to watch as the adults return
after a day at sea.
End of Waterfront Road, open daily, 10am till end of viewing.
Present this programme to receive 10% discount.
Steampunk: Tomorrow As It Used To Be
Journey to a distant place and time - a steam-powered world of
blimps, balloons and coal-smoke-darkened skies, a miraculous,
mechanical, magical world of cogs, levers, wheels, clocks, and
glass gauges, where Jules Verne and Monty Python might meet
to smoke a pipe in steampunked Victorian Oamaru; tomorrow
as it used to be!
The Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames Street,
15th October–27th November, open daily 10.30am-4.30pm.
Admission free.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde revealed in an exhibition of
prints by printmaker Jason Greig.
The Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames Street,
1st October–27th November, open daily 10.30am– 4.30pm.
Admission free.
Oamaru Public Library
To celebrate Heritage Week, the Library is hosting three
performances by musician and singer Lynley Caldwell on
Wednesday 16th, Thursday 17th and Friday 18th November at
12.30pm each day. Throughout Heritage Week homage will be
paid to the Arts and Crafts Movement with a display of books
to delight and inform.
62 Thames Street, 12.30pm. Admission free.
North Otago Museum
We are spoilt for choice this year with two outstanding
exhibitions at the museum. The first is a Steampunk Fashion
Exhibition running from September to March. The second is a
Victorian Crewel Work Exhibition on display from October to
December.
60 Thames Street, Monday to Friday 10.30am–4.30pm, Saturday
1.30pm–4.30pm. Admission free.
Arts and Craft Trail
Featuring more than 50 creative people producing artworks
and craft objects. Pick up a brochure from the
i-SITE, 1 Thames Street.
OOH! Backstage Behind the Curtains
Daily tours take you behind the curtains of the refurbished 1907
Oamaru Municipal Town Hall. A place to gather, celebrate, debate,
entertain, network, share ideas, educate and broker a deal.
Oamaru Opera House, 90 Thames Street,
Monday to Friday 10am and 2pm. $5 donation.
Early History of Oamaru
A 10-minute movie of the changing times in Victorian Oamaru
played on request.
I-SITE, 1 Thames Street.
Oamaru Auto Collections
Classic cars, racing cars, bikes and machinery. Our motoring past
on show inside one of Oamaru’s famous historic buildings.
Woolstore Complex, 1 Tyne Street, open daily 10am–4.30pm.
Admission $8.
Clark’s Mill
Visit New Zealand’s only surviving water-powered flour mill;
gain insight into 19th century milling by viewing the labyrinth
of restored mill machinery throughout this impressive fourstorey Oamaru stone mill.
12km south of Oamaru on SH1, November–April. Open Sunday
1pm–3pm. Adults $10, children free.
Totara Estate
Visit the restored farm buildings where New Zealand’s first
export of frozen meat was prepared in 1882 for shipment to
England. Learn about the courage of the settlers who shaped
our agriculture industry. Victorian Heritage Week Special
– present this programme and receive a free copy of “A Lasting
Legacy”.
8km south of Oamaru on SH1, open daily 10am-5pm. Adults $9,
children free.
Vanished World Centre
Discover the ancestors of New Zealand’s marine life. See worldclass fossils of shark-toothed dolphins, giant penguins, whales
and sharks.
Main Road Duntroon, 44km from Oamaru on SH83, open daily
10am-5pm. Adults $5, family $10.
Nichol’s Blacksmith
Currently under restoration; view from the doorway only. A
turn-of-the-century genuine small-town smithy with bellows
and forge.
Main Road Duntroon, SH83.
Kurow Museum and Information Centre
Visit the 1880’s dance hall which is now the venue for New
Zealand’s National Museum for Social Security.
57 Bledisloe Street, Kurow, 66km from Oamaru on SH83, open
daily 10am–3pm. Entry to the museum by donation.
Quarryman’s Cottage
Weston is the home of Oamaru stone and the preservation of this
1881 cottage reminds us of the simple life of the quarrymen.
Main Road Weston – Opposite Weston Four Square.
Admission free.
Parkside Gardens and Limestone Quarry Tours
The garden was created to display ornate Oamaru limestone.
Visitors are welcome to come and enjoy the peaceful
surroundings.
Airedale Road, Weston. Gardens – daily by donation
Quarry tours by appointment, phone 03 434 9786.
Tea Time Special
Miss Baxter, the proprietess of the Annie’s Victorian Tea
Rooms, invites you to one hour tea time special! Come and
enjoy a cup of good tea and a slice of cake while listening to the
pianoforte.
Daily from 16th-20th November, 3pm–4pm.
Bookings essential! Tickets $10 at Annie’s Victorian Tea Rooms, 1
Tees Street, phone 03 434 1230, [email protected]
Penny-farthing Riding Lessons
Learn how to ride a penny-farthing and look around the cycle
shop at the range of vintage cycles.
Oamaru Cycle Works 1882, Wansbeck Street, Wednesday–Friday
12pm–1pm and 3pm-4pm.
Adults $5, children under 7 $3. Phone 03-439-5333
or [email protected]
Historic Oamaru Churches
St Luke’s Church, Itchen Street, open daily 10am–4pm.
St Paul’s Church, 5 Coquet Street, open daily 10am–3pm.
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Tales from the Vault
With world-renowned storyteller Annette Knower, who will
enthral you with tales and tall stories from Oamaru’s chequered
past.
i-Site 1 Thames Street 10.30am Admission free
The Tokarahi Ladies’ Choir
Enjoy St Paul’s first midday concert with conductor Wendy
Eckhardt. Bring your lunch. Tea and coffee provided.
St Pauls Church 5 Coquet Street 12pm
Entry by gold coin donation
Oamaru Steam and Rail Workshop
Venture behind the scenes into the workshop of steam and rail
– the ultimate in a blokes shed.
Workshop on railway siding behind the Woolstore Complex 1pm
– 4pm Entry by donation
Gillies Metaltech Pattern Shop and Peek-a-Boo
New Zealand’s only manufacturer of cast metal water main
fittings, valves, hydrants and special purpose pumps. Today’s
tour will take you around the pattern workshop. Also view from
under the red light the foyer and parlour room of the notorious
Northern Hotel.
Tyne Street 1pm – 4pm Entry by donation
Criterion Coffee and Cake
Served with saucy and spicy stories from the Victorian era with
storyteller Annette Knowler.
Criterion Hotel Corner Tyne and Harbour Street
8.00pm $12 ask at the bar
“We found Love (and an exquisite set of porcelain figurines)
aboard SS Farndale Avenue”
An extremely funny comedy with special appeal to all ladies
who have ever been involved with Women’s Institute, or the like
- and their long-suffering husbands!
Oamaru Repertory Society Theatre, Itchen Street
7.30pm Adults $18, School age students $10 at the Box office. $15
for block bookings of more than ten.
Tickets also available at TicketDirect – booking fee applies
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Behind the Scenes Tour
Every museum has more in store that it’s able to display. View
those rare treasures that lie behind closed doors.
North Otago Museum 60 Thames Street
10.30am Admission free Bookings essential –
Phone 03-433-0815
Tales from the Vault
World-renowned storyteller Annette Knowler will enthral you with
tales from Oamaru’s chequered past.
i-Site 1 Thames Street 10.30am Admission free
The Great Corner Soapbox Debate:
“What happened? What’s going on? What will happen next?
And when?” Or “do the tea leaves outdo the tea bags?” Come
and hear the topics of the day, passionately debated by wellknown dignitaries! Wear your heckling shoes!
12 noon till 1.00pm outside Annie’s Victorian Tea Rooms & Store,
No 1 Tees Street Admission free
Forty Flying Fingers
Music at St Paul’s church features four pianists at pianos with
the North Otago Women’s Club Choir. Bring your lunch. Tea
and coffee provided.
St Paul’s Church 5 Coquet Street 12.05pm
Gold coin donation
“A useless life is an early death: William Morris the idealist”
and “The Women of Pre-Raphaelitism”
Two illuminating lectures to be delivered by Professor Pamela
Gerrish Nunn, an internationally acclaimed scholar of 19th
century Arts and artists. These will include images of well
known and lesser known artists. Supper will be served at a
break between talks, and there will be an opportunity to talk
directly with the Professor.
Annie’s Tearooms 1 Tees Street 7.30pm sharp
Tickets $25 available from Annie’s Tearooms
Includes supper
“We found Love (and an exquisite set of porcelain figurines)
aboard SS Farndale Avenue”
An extremely funny comedy with special appeal to all ladies
who have ever been involved with Women’s Institute, or the like
- and their long-suffering husbands!
Oamaru Repertory Society Theatre, Itchen Street
7.30pm Adults $18, School age students $10 at the Box office. $15
for block bookings of more than ten.
Tickets also available at TicketDirect – booking fee applies
Valid 14-20 Nov
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Evening, a la carte and lunch, great gluten or dairy
free options available
Out door courtyard. Accommodation available
Open 7 days 10am - late
9 Itchen Street, Oamaru
03 434 5246
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Open 7 days 10am - late
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03 434 5246
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culminating in a Grand Carvery
every night from 7pm
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Open from 10.30 each day for
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Loan & Mercantile
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(except Sunday nights)
Harbour St in the Heritage Precinct 03 434 9905
Valid 14-20 Nov
One free regular coffee with every
breakfast or lunch order
The Swaggers and Servants Dance
While the toffs sip tea and the swells chat politely, the swaggers
and servants are downstairs, enjoying their own lusty, dusty
revel. If a raucous romp is your idea of fun then join the rowdy
roisters at this nicely naughty knees-up with music from Fat
Boy and Slim. Refreshments available for purchase.
Smith’s Grainstore Tyne Street 8pm till late
$20 includes supper. TicketDirect service fee applies. Also door
sales on the night
Criterion Coffee and Cake
Served with saucy and spicy stories from the Victorian era with
storyteller Annette Knowler.
Criterion Hotel Corner Tyne and Harbour Street
8.00pm $12 ask at the bar
Berlin Burlesque
Following the international and national tour of “The Butler”,
the Loons Circus Theatre Company brings its new show where
a powerful story is told through a contemporary cabaret setting.
This is an R16 event.
Oamaru Opera House 90 Thames St 8pm
$39 TicketDirect service fee applies
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Breakfast: The saga of the Edwin Fox
The old East Indiaman ship on display in dry dock near the
Picton ferry terminal. Built in India in 1853, this ship’s colourful
history includes carrying troops to Crimea, convicts to Australia,
and immigrants to New Zealand in the 1870s. Captain Johnson
was accused of immorality with a female passenger during a
ferocious storm in the Bay of Biscay in 1873. In the 1880s the
ship was dismasted and served as a refrigerator hulk at Port
Chalmers, freezing mutton sent by rail from the Totara Station.
She was salvaged as a rotting hulk in Shakespeare Bay in the
1980s before being taken to her current resting place. The talk
will be illustrated with paintings and photos of the ship in her
various incarnations.
Star and Garter Restaurant 9 Itchen Street
7.30am – 8.30am $25 TicketDirect service fee applies
Tales from the Vault
World-renowned storyteller Annette Knowler will enthral you with
tales from Oamaru’s chequered past.
i-Site 1 Thames Street 10.30am Admission free
Café Promenade
Stroll along Thames Street, visit the local victuallers, and marvel
at the shop windows decorated in heritage style.
10am – 12pm
Madeira M’Dear
Sample traditional Madeira wine and cake and try your hand at
Victorian parlour games.
Early Settlers’ Hall Behind the Opera House Severn Street
10am – 2pm $3 per serving
NZ Organ Museum
View the wondrous array of organs, including the Bicknell
Memorial Pipe Organ – a bequest from the estate of Bernard
Bicknell of Christchurch. His grandfather Frederick was the
first Oamaru Postmaster, retiring when the new Post Office
opened in 1881.
NZ Organ Manufactory, 1 Meek Street, 10am–2pm.
Admission free
Behind the Scenes Tour
Every museum has more in store that it’s able to display. View
those rare treasures that lie behind closed doors.
North Otago Museum 60 Thames Street
10.30am Admission free
Bookings essential – Phone 03-433-0815
The Great Corner Soapbox Debate:
“What happened? What’s going on? What will happen next?
And when?” Or “do the tea leaves outdo the tea bags?” Come
and hear the topics of the day, passionately debated by wellknown dignitaries! Wear your heckling shoes!
12 noon till 1.00pm outside Annie’s Victorian Tea Rooms & Store,
No 1 Tees Street Admission free
The Waitaki Herald Victorian Retail Window Display
Prize-giving and presentation of the silver tray for the bestdressed Victorian Window.
Oamaru Opera House 90 Thames Street 12.15pm
Great Photo Opportunity
Join Oamaru’s heritage family for a group photograph in
costume on the steps of the Opera House.
Oamaru Opera House 90 Thames Street 12.15pm
The Forrester and Lemon Memorial Lecture
Free public lecture sponsored by North Otago branch of the
New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Guest lecturer: Dr Conal
McCarthy. Topic: “Temples strayed from Athens: Victorian
Oamaru and New Zealand colonial architecture.”
The Ink Box – Oamaru Opera House 90 Thames Street 12.30pm
Admission free
Variety Concert
A St Paul’s concert featuring local artists. Bring your lunch. Tea
and coffee provided.
St Paul’s Church 5 Coquet Street 12pm
Gold coin donation
Crombie and Price Victorian Garden Party
A good garden party needs a good garden and there are few
better than the Oamaru Public Gardens. Look for the Band
Rotunda and join the guests enjoying fine food, silver service
and magical music.
Oamaru Public Gardens, Band Rotunda
2.30pm – 3.30pm Admission free
What are the Wild Waves Saying...
The launch of a collection of historical stories set in the Herbert
and Otepopo districts. Authors Dorothy McKenzie and
Marise Martin have put together 34 short stories depicting the
challenges facing the settler and showing the human spirit at its
best and worst!
Annie’s Tearooms, 1 Tees Street 5pm
Home and Abroad – Fine Arts and Collectables
St Luke’s Anglican Church offers a silent auction of quality
pieces plus crafts and preserves, in aid of the Bishops’ Appeal for
Christchurch and the Anglican Missions Board. First viewing
and registration whilst enjoying local wines and cheeses.
Bidding opens.
St Luke’s Hall 3 Wharfe Street 6.30pm - 9pm
Pedestrian access via steps from Itchen and Tees Streets.
Admission free
“We found Love (and an exquisite set of porcelain figurines)
aboard SS Farndale Avenue”
An extremely funny comedy with special appeal to all ladies
who have ever been involved with Women’s Institute, or the like
- and their long-suffering husbands!
Oamaru Repertory Society Theatre, Itchen Street
7.30pm Adults $18, School age students $10 at the Box office. $15
for block bookings of more than ten.
Tickets also available at TicketDirect – booking fee applies
Berlin Burlesque
Following the international and national tour of “The Butler”,
the Loons Circus Theatre Company brings its new show where
a powerful story is told through a contemporary cabaret setting.
This is an R16 event.
Oamaru Opera House 90 Thames St 8pm
$39 TicketDirect service fee applies
The Victorian Heritage Ball
An evening of decorous dancing and dignified discourse, with
a light but elegant supper. Victorian gowns for the ladies and
tails, dinner suits or military uniforms (medals optional) for
the gentlemen.
Scottish Hall. Tyne Street.
Bar open at 6.30pm for pre dancing drinks and conversation.
Dancing starts promptly at 8pm till late
$50 TicketDirect service fee applies
Criterion Coffee and Cake
Served with saucy and spicy stories from the Victorian era with
storyteller Annette Knowler.
Criterion Hotel Corner Tyne and Harbour Street
8.00pm $12 ask at the bar
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Breakfast: The saga of the Edwin Fox
The old East Indiaman ship on display in Picton was built in
India in 1853, carried troops to Crimea, convicts to Australia, and
immigrants to New Zealand. Her captain was accused of immorality
with a female passenger in the Bay of Biscay. The rotting hulk was
salvaged in Shakespeare Bay in the 1980s. An illustrated talk.
Star and Garter Restaurant 9 Itchen Street
8.30am – 9.30am $25 TicketDirect service fee applies
Home and Abroad – Fine Arts and Collectables
St Luke’s Anglican Church offers a silent auction of quality
pieces plus crafts and preserves in aid of the Bishops’ Appeal
for Christchurch and the Anglican Missions Board. Viewing
and bidding continues.
St Luke’s Hall 3 Wharfe Street 9am - 12pm
Pedestrian access via steps from Itchen and Tees Streets.
Admission free
DB Mainland Breweries Clydesdale Team.
See these massive horses being harnessed for the Grand Street
Parade outside the Loan and Merc Restaurant
Loan and Mercantile
Corner Wansbeck and Harbour Streets 9.30am
The Oamaru Mail Grand Street Parade
The sights and sounds of yester year will wend their way through
town for all to see.
Starts Tyne Street along Itchen Street and into Lower Thames
Street 10.30am
The 17th National Penny Farthing and Veteran Cycle
Championship including Raleigh 20 and Healing Cycles
New Zealand’s foremost heritage cycling even attracting
wheelmen (and women) from all around the globe, this will
be another high thrill as riders participate in sprints, slaloms,
relays, slow races, and the ghastly Tyne Street Grunter. Collect
your entry forms from the 1882 Oamaru Cycle Works shop
Wansbeck Street.
Tyne Street 11.30pm – 3pm Prize Giving 3.30pm Birdlands Wine
Bar Admission free
A Tribute to the Andrews Sisters
Returning to Oamaru after September’s sell-out, Chant et Danse
takes you back to the 1940s and 50s. Coffee and cake available
for purchase before and after the show.
The Ink Box - Oamaru Opera House 90 Thames Street
1pm $25 TicketDirect service fee applies
Gala Race Day
A family day at the races with live entertainment and heritage
games for the children. Prizes for most spiffing Victorian finery,
most elegant picnic table and basket, tastiest pie and most
fabulous cake. Featuring the Fat Sally’s Pub and Restaurant
Drivers series.
Oamaru Racecourse 12pm Admission free
Contact Scott Elliffe 027-454-8344 – [email protected]
Loosen up Vicky – A Victorian Music Hall Production
Chant et Danse presents a tribute to Victorian times. Coffee
and cake available for purchase before and after the show.
The Ink Box - Oamaru Opera House 90 Thames Street
3pm $25 TicketDirect service fee applies
Arts and Crafts Bus Tour
Join us for an afternoon of creative inspiration as we visit three
different couples in three different villas surrounded by three
different gardens in three different locations. You will meet a
weaver, an embroiderer, a willow basket maker, a gardener, a
painter and a woodworker. Afternoon refreshments are included.
Meet outside Last Post, Thames Street, 1pm. $15. Tickets available
from the Victorian Heritage Centre 2 Harbour Street
“We found Love (and an exquisite set of porcelain figurines)
aboard SS Farndale Avenue”
An extremely funny comedy with special appeal to all ladies
who have ever been involved with Women’s Institute, or the like
- and their long-suffering husbands!
Oamaru Repertory Society Theatre, Itchen Street 4pm
Adults $18, School age students $10 at the Box office. $15 for
block bookings of more than ten.
Tickets also available at TicketDirect – booking fee applies
McDancing
Enjoy a Celtic fling at St Paul’s, where Highland Dancers will be
competing all day.
St Paul’s Church 5 Coquet Street Admission free
Oamaru Steam and Rail
Welcome aboard the DSA 234 diesel locomotive which will take
you from the Harbour side Station to the Quarry Siding in the
harbour area and return. Trips every 45 minutes from 11am
Adults $8, children $3, Family (2 adults 2 children) $20 return.
Book at the station or i-Site
Pen-y-bryn Lodge High Tea
Step back into a gilded age with a traditional Victorian High Tea
at Pen-y-bryn, and savour the splendour of one of Oamaru’s
finest homes and gardens.
For bookings phone 03-434-5385
5pm – 7pm Pen-y-bryn Lodge, 41 Towey Street.
Bookings essential.
Book Launch – ‘Fleur’
The life and times of pioneering restaurateur Fleur Sullivan.
Partake of a pre-Berlin Burlesque platter and drinks.
Loan and Mercantile Restaurant. 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Corner Wansbeck and Harbour Streets
Berlin Burlesque
Following the international and national tour of “The Butler”,
the Loons Circus Theatre Company brings its new show where
a powerful story is told through a contemporary cabaret setting.
This is an R16 event.
Oamaru Opera House 90 Thames St 8pm
$39 TicketDirect service fee applies
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The Network Waitaki Victorian Fete
Revel in the sights and sounds of New Zealand’s greatest
Victorian Fete. Street circus and children’s entertainers, world
stone sawing championships, beard and moustache contest,
traditional trades, tempting stalls of every conceivable delight,
penny-farthings, fabulous fashions, delicious refreshments,
and so much more than you could imagine.
Harbour and Tyne Streets 10am – 4pm
$12 Family Pass, $5 Adults, $2 Childern, Preschoolers free.
Train Excursion from Dunedin
Travel in style along the scenic coast from Dunedin to Oamaru.
Spend a merry day at the Network Waitaki Victorian Fete then,
loaded with bargains and happy memories, enjoy the leisurely
trip back to Dunedin.
Departs 7.30am, returns 2 .45pm. $90 adults, $45 child, $235
family of two adults, two children. Includes entry to the Fete. Book
at Taieri Gorge Railway, (03) 477 4449, [email protected]
Network Waitaki Fete - Parade of Victorian Fashion
Enjoy a parade of clothing from the Victorian era of 1837 to
1901. To register to take part in the Fashion Parade please
contact Judith Amyes on Phone 03 434 6011 or 021 0249 0602.
Part of the Network Waitaki Fete Day
Oamaru Steam and Rail
Welcome aboard the DSA 234 diesel locomotive which will take
you from the Harbourside Station to the Quarry Siding in the
harbour area and return. Trips every 45 minutes from 10am
Adults $8, children $3, Family (2 adults 2 children) $20 return.
Book at the station or i-Site
Home and Abroad – Fine Arts and Collectables
St Luke’s Anglican Church offers a Silent Auction of quality
pieces plus crafts and preserves, jointly in aid of the Bishops’
Appeal for Christchurch and the Anglican Missions Board.
Final Viewing and Sales. Bidding closes 1.30pm. Successful
bidders may collect from 1.45pm
St Luke’s Hall 3 Wharfe Street
11.30am – 1.30pm Admission free
Pedestrian access via steps from Itchen and Tees Streets.
Heritage Church Services 10am
Baptist Church Severn Street
St Paul’s Presbyterian Church 5 Coquet Street
St Luke’s Anglican Heritage Service 10.30am
Share in a service which spans the life of St Luke’s from the
language and music one would have found in 1865 to that of
the modern day.
St Luke’s Church Corner Itchen and Tees Streets
“We found Love (and an exquisite set of porcelain figurines)
aboard SS Farndale Avenue”
An extremely funny comedy with special appeal to all ladies
who have ever been involved with Women’s Institute, or the like
- and their long-suffering husbands!
Oamaru Repertory Society Theatre, Itchen Street 4pm
Adults $18, School age students $10 at the Box office. $15 for
block bookings of more than ten.
Tickets also available at TicketDirect – booking fee applies
U
VICTORIAN
FETE
Sunday,
20 November 2011
10.00 am – 4.00 pm
in
Oamaru’s Victorian Precinct
TAKE IN ALL THE SIGHTS & SOUNDS OF NEW
ZEALAND’S GREATEST VICTORIAN FAIR!
Taieri Gorge Excursion Train from Dunedin
Phone 03 477 4449 foir times and information
Adults $5, School children $2, Pre-schoolers free,
Family pass $12. No dogs please.
Book a stall site or for further information:
Fete Co-ordinator:
Faye Ormandy on 03 434 5385
[email protected] or
www.historicoamaru.co.nz
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