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Seeing the sights - Dallington Bridge

Loaded coach on Delamain Street (now part of Gloucester Street) at the Dallington Bridge. Printed annotation reads: "Seeing the sights. - Dallington Bridge."

Date unspecified year in 188X
Format Postcard
Resource Type Image
Collection 2013 Photo Hunt

Travel in pre-railway days

Newspaper caption: Cobb and Co.'s coach on the road between Canterbury and Westland. At the old Glacier Hotel, Bealey, where horses were changed.

Date 1926
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Weekly Press

Some of the visitors arriving

Newspaper caption: Farmers' Day at Canterbury Agricultural College and Presentation to Mr W. Lowrie

Date 1908
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Weekly Press

Mr Cassidy and three of his coach drivers

Newspaper caption: Piercing the Alps: The beginning of the Arthurs Pass tunnel. With the Canterbury party. Mr Hugh Cassidy, coach proprietor and contractor for West Coast mails. Mr Joe Searle, who...

Date 1908-05-04
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Weekly Press

Commencing the ascent of the Otira

Photograph published without additional caption.

Date 1906
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Canterbury Times

Arrival of the coaches with the West Coast party

Newspaper caption: Progress of the Midland Railway: celebrating the driving of the Arthur's Pass tunnel. The mouth of the tunnel is visible in this picture on the extreme right.

Date 1918-08-21
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Weekly Press

After the ceremony: the coaches getting ready

Newspaper caption: Progress of the Midland Railway: celebrating the driving of the Arthur's Pass tunnel.

Date 1918-08-21
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Weekly Press

On the dividing line between Canterbury and Westland

Newspaper caption: A coach with passengers on the roadside pauses at the top of Arthur's Pass. The white stone marks the division between two provincial districts.

Date 1904
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Weekly Press

The old Bealey Hotel, photographed about 1882

Newspaper caption: Mr O'Malley, the landlord, is seen behind the two leaders of the coach team on the left which is facing towards Christchurch. The driver is the famous Arthur Davies - note his tall...

Date 1882 (year approximate)
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection Weekly Press