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5.4.6 Victoria Park
Location shooting also took place in the tea rooms sitting at the top of Victoria Park, which were virtually unchanged from that bright winter day when Pauline, Juliet and Honora had tea and cakes before taking their fateful afternoon walk. Remarkably, the tea rooms have been torn down since the film was made. Victoria Park lies about 7 km south of the city center, near the summit (500 m) of the Cashmere hills, which form the southern border of Christchurch. "Heavenly Creatures" shows Honora and the two girls taking the #2 Cashmere bus on June 22, 1954, up to the Dyers Pass Road terminus. From there they had to walk about 1 km up Victoria Park Road to the lookout and Tearooms of the Park. All of these details are accurate; the #2 Cashmere still runs this route, starting from Cathedral Square, four blocks from the Rieper's home, running straight south along Columbo St., to Cashmere Rd and Hackthorne Rd.
