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Royal visit to Burnham Military Camp

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visiting Burham Military Camp during the Royal Visit to New Zealand. Welcoming the Royal Party is the First Canterbury Regimental Band. Holding the baton in the centre...

Date 1954-01-22
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2020 Photo Hunt

Transporting cables for Papanui-Waimairi substation route

Truck with trailers transporting 0.25 pilot cable for the Papanui and Waimairi substation route.

Date 1954
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection MED Historical Photographs

Crowds with flags

Crowds of people gathered with union jack flags, possibly as part of the Royal Tour to Christchurch in 1954.

Date 1954
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2020 Photo Hunt

Flag on the Clarendon Hotel

View of the top of the Clarendon Hotel on Worcester Street decorated as part of the 1954 Royal Tour.

Date 1954
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2020 Photo Hunt

Clarendon Hotel decorated for the Royal visit

Exterior of the Clarendon Hotel on the corner of Worcester Street and Oxford Terrace decorated for the Royal visit to New Zealand.

Date 1953-12 to 1954-01
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Ballantynes decorated for the Royal visit

Ballantynes department store on the corner of Cashel Street and Colombo Street decorated for the Royal visit to New Zealand in 1953-1954 with a garden scene on the roof. A sign above the entrance says...

Date 1953-12 to 1954-01
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

The Queen on the balcony of the Clarendon Hotel during the Royal Visit

View through crowds waving at Queen Elizabeth II on the balcony of the Clarendon Hotel in Cathedral Square during the Royal visit. The crowd stretches from Cathedral Square along Worcester Street and...

Date 1953-12 to 1954-01
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Hay's Department Store decorated for the Royal visit

Exterior of Hay's Department Store on Colombo Street with decorations above the entrance for the Royal visit to New Zealand.

Date 1953-12 to 1954-01
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

DIC building decorated for the Royal visit

Exterior of the DIC building (later Beath's then Arthur Barnett's) on Cashel Street decorated for the Royal visit to New Zealand. Taken from the corner with High Street in the central city.

Date 1953-12 to 1954-01
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

The Queen during the Royal visit in Cathedral Square

View through crowds of Queen Elizabeth II speaking at the Civic Reception outside the Embassy Theatre in Cathedral Square during the Royal visit to New Zealand.

Date 1953-12 to 1954-01
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2018 Photo Hunt

Christchurch's last tram from Cashmere to Papanui

"Christchurch's last tram Cashmere – Papanui. Photo taken by my mother who lived in Cashmere." - Contributor's note.

Date 1954
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2021 Photo Hunt

The Greenaway family at New Brighton beach

This photo was taken at New Brighton by a wandering cameraman who offered to take the family photo for a fee – a common practice in those days.

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2008 Photo Hunt

Mr H. S. Feast, Town Clerk, being presented to the Queen

Photograph shows the Town Clerk Bert Feast meeting the Queen at a civic reception in Cathedral Square on 19 January 1954. The Prime Minister Sidney Holland is on the Queen's left.

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2014 Photo Hunt

On the Town, 1954

In Manchester St, with my mum's friend Shirley, looking after me. I am 4 years old.

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2016 Photo Hunt

Looking over Akaroa Harbour, 1954

Looking over Akaroa Harbour. My mum, not long arrived in New Zealand and her little dog.

Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection 2017 Photo Hunt