Tribute for Elsie on her 85th birthday. Click on the image to read the tributes in full:
Maire Leadbeater is a long term activist in the anti-nuclear movement, and in international solidarity campaigns for Fiji, the Philippines, East Timor and West Papua. She is also one of Elsie’s four children. Read her tribute here
Obituary by Murray Horton: Elsie Locke Obituary
Elsie Locke is one of the Canterbury Heroes – a set of twelve bronze busts of important local figures in Christchurch. Elsie’s plaque reads:
Political, social and local community activist, well-loved historian and writer, determined and doughty fighter for the rights of the under-dog, active to the end.
To go to the Christchurch Libraries Elsie Locke page, please click on the image:
10 reasons why Christchurch must survive
By Andrew Stone
5 March 2011Countless justifications can be found for saving the Garden City. Expat Cantabrian Andrew Stone looks at just a few.
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