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Photographs of the Lake Coleridge hydroelectric scheme and the Hillside and Addington railway workshops
- Date
- [ca 1920]-1928
- Reference
- PAColl-7080-1
- Description
Views of newly laid pipelines feeding the Lake Coleridge Power Station. Included in the views are Lake Coleridge Village, the bed of the Rakaia River and the mountains of the Hutt and Black Hill ranges. There are also other images relating to the power scheme including groups of people around the lake, a small unidentified building and a mechanism which was part of the workings of the surge chamber. Also included in this group of images are two photographs of the interiors of the the Addington or Hillside railway workshops. Finally there are three images of electric locomotives.
The second group of photographs relate to the rebuilding of the Addington and Hillside railway workshops. The images of Addington were photographed on the 7th of March 1928, and those of Hillside on the 9th of March 1928.
There are six images of an unidentified electricity substation.
The last six images are of Silston Cory-Wright and one of his children.
Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).
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- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Cory-Wright & Salmon Ltd: Photographs
- Format
- 41 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs
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UnknownConstruction of the Addington railway workshop, New Cars and Carpenters
Date: 7 March 1928
From: Cory-Wright & Salmon Ltd: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-190416-F
Description: View from the south west of the construction of the New Cars and Carpenters section of the Addington railway workshop. Photograph taken 7 March 1928. Other - print at PAColl-7080-1-15-2 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Addington 7.3.28; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - New Cars & Carpenters from S.W.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - A.H. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Construction of the Addington railway workshop, Wheels and Bogies
Date: 7 May 1923
From: Cory-Wright & Salmon Ltd: Photographs
Reference: 1/2-190423-F
Description: View from the west of the construction of the Wheels and Bogies section, Addington railway workshop. Photograph taken 7 March 1928. Other - print at PAColl-7080-1-14-1 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Addington 7.3.28; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Wheels & Bogies from W. A.G. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative