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Girders, cranes, and radio tower

Construction site of the Municipal Electricity Department building as seen from Armagh Street. To the south are a crane, the roof of the Municipal Tepid Baths, and the radio tower of 202 Gloucester...

Date 1938 (year uncertain)
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection MED negatives

Trucks and workers at MED demolition site

The Armagh Street entrance to the demolition site of the former Municipal Electricity Department building. Also visible are workers and two trucks.

Date 1937
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection MED negatives

MED building and dynamos

Frame one shows the Municipal Electricity Department building on the corner of Armagh Street and Manchester Street. Frame two shows maintenance work being carried out on a rotary converter at Armagh...

Date 1909 to 1947
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection MED negatives

Construction site of MED building

Looking south towards the construction site of the Municipal Electricity Department building on the corner of Armagh Street and Manchester Street.

Date 1938 (year approximate)
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection MED Historical Photographs

Crane and girders of new MED building

Looking south towards the construction site of the Municipal Electricity Department building on the corner of Armagh Street and Manchester Street.

Date 1938 (year approximate)
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection MED Historical Photographs

Eastern extension of MED building

Construction of the eastern extension to the Municipal Electricity Department building.

Date 1928
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection MED Historical Photographs

MED building surrounded by scaffolding

Scaffolding surrounding the exterior of the new Municipal Electricity Department building under construction on the corner of Armagh Street and Manchester Street.

Date 1938 (year approximate)
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection MED Historical Photographs

Waka on a vintage truck in parade

A waka with people in traditional Māori attire on a Wright & Company Ltd truck in a parade on Manchester Street, outside the Municipal Tepid Baths and Municipal Electricity Department building.

Date 1936 (year uncertain; year approximate)
Format Negative
Resource Type Image
Collection Vinicombe family collection

Christchurch Municipal Baths

Exterior of the Christchurch Municipal Baths on Manchester Street with the rubbish furnace of Christchurch City Council in the background which helped to heat the pools.

Date 1912-11-01
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection MED Historical Photographs

West from the top of destructor chimney

View from the top of the Municipal Electricity Department destructor chimney on Armagh Street looking west over Manchester Street to New Regent Street, with Armagh Street to the right towards the...

Date unspecified month and day in 1939
Format Photograph
Resource Type Image
Collection MED Historical Photographs