IMAGE
View looking south east across Kelburn
- Date
- ca 1928
- Reference
- EP-1740-1/2-G
- Description
View looking south east across Kelburn, showing work on the Botanic Gardens, including the demolition of the ridge (later the site of Magpie Lawn) and the filling of Glenmore Gully by unemployment relief labour. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1928.
Note on back of file print reads: Date - ca 1928. Wgtn Botanic Garden. Glenmore hills looking south east across Kelburn. Work is underway demolishing he ridge (now the site of Magpie Lawn) and filling the Glenmore Gully. This was part of a larger project which involved widening Glenmore Street and Tinakori Road to conform with the newly formed Bowen Street. The entire frontage of the Botanic Garden was remodelled between 1927 and 1930. The piping of the stream, the filling of the gully and the leveling of Magpie Lawn had been completed by December 1928. The work was carried out by unemployment relief labourr. (Info from Walter Cook 1988).
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative
Transfers: From box containing EP-1732 to 1751.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper / Negatives of the Evening Post newspaper
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Gelatin dry plate negative
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View looking south east across Kelburn. Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper. Ref: EP-1740-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22879978More information can be found in our terms of use.