View of the central city, looking south towards the Government Life building in Cathedral Square and beyond to snow on the Port Hills.
View of Christchurch rooftops from the Drainage Board building.
View from the roof of 233 Cambridge Terrace, the Drainage Board building, looking towards Cathedral Square.
Exterior of The Midland Club on Oxford Terrace next to Noah's Hotel. In the background in the Government Life building.
Aerial view of Victoria Street and Victoria Square including the Christchurch Town Hall and with the area marked out for the development of the ParkRoyal Hotel.
View of the central city from the Drainage Board building.
Electricians Murray Sanders (left) and Gregory Watts installing a new bank of relays on the master clock unit at the Government Life building in preparation for a changeover to the Celsius temperature...
Government Life Insurance Office minister, John Rae, pressing a button inside the Government Life Building that officially starts the time and temperature clock on the top of the building.
Workmen checking the heating and air conditioning centre at the Government Life Building.
View of the digital clock on top of the Government Life building in Cathedral Square, taken from the roof of the Christchurch Star building on Kilmore Street.
Government Life building concept drawing overlayed onto a photograph of the site in Cathedral Square.
The site of the AMP building prior to construction in Worcester Street.
Able Cadet Michael Stewart next to the Citizens War Memorial in Cathedral Square, whilst wreaths are laid during the Anzac Day dawn service.
View of the city centre seen from the postal centre on Hereford Street. Looking east towards Cathedral Square.
View of the central city buildings surrounding Victoria Square.
Aerial view of the Square
Construction in the Square
Looking down on the intersection of High Street, Hereford and Colombo Street
11.56 am in the Square. Photo shows Governement Life Building, taken looking north-west.
Christchurch from the air. Kiwi postcard SR 53. Photograph by Robin Smith Photography Ltd. Published by A.H. & A.W. Reed.
View of central city, looking south from Cambridge Terrace. In the foreground is the Avon River with the Thomas Edmonds Band Rotunda, lower left.
Mushroom cloud formation over the Port Hills. In the foreground is the Government Life building.
View of the central city looking south towards the MFL and Government Life buildings and over to snow on the Sugarloaf and the Port Hills. The temperature gauge on the Government Life building reads 0...
View from the east side of Cathedral Square looking towards the construction site of the Government Life Building, also in Cathedral Square.