East Street
Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd :Ashburton. Printed and published by Francis Edward Buckland, for...
Date: 1886
By: Weekly press (Newspaper); Buckland, Francis Edward, active 1886
Reference: B-055-021
Description: Includes: 1858: The whole of the township - Turton's Accommodation House. 1866: Travelling facilities - The Christchurch-Timaru Coach 1886: Travelling facilities - Traffic bridge; Railway bridge 1886: Part of the town- View in East Street. Extended Title - Supplement to the Canterbury "Weekly press", September 10th, 1886. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (On each image): Whitcombe & Tombs Ld. lith. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Four black & white lithographs on sheet, 288 x 445 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 2002.
Barr album
Date: [circa 1899-1902]
By: Barr, Benjamin John, 1883-1939
Reference: PA1-o-034
Description: Photographs of Ashburton taken by B J Barr, circa 1900s. Views include various churches (Anglican, Presbyterian, Wesleyan and Roman Catholic); public buildings including the Ashburton County Council, Post and Telegraph Office (with places for clocks in a tower, lacking the clock faces), the Bank of New Zealand and the Union Bank of Australia, the Somerset Hotel, railway station, the Lodge Ashburton Masonic Hall, and the Working Men's Club. There is a view of the Ashburton Cemetery, with the gravestone of John Morgan Furze, husband of Hannah Furze, who died at Buccleugh, Mt Somers in March 1901. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth album 190 x 245 mm
Ashburton, general view looking down East Street - Photograph taken by A W H
Date: [between 1910s and 1920s]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
By: Hopkins, Alfred Walter, 1882-1969
Reference: 1/2-000886-G
Description: General view of Ashburton, looking down East Street. Baring Square with two statues, one of John Grigg (1828?-1901), runs along East Street in the left foreground, and the business premises of Baker and Brown (coachbuilders at 164 Havelock Street), are visible behind the park. Photograph taken by A W H, probably Alfred W Hopkins, bookseller and stationer at 55 East Street, Ashburton Source of descriptive information - Photographer identified as Alfred W Hopkins from image at 1/2-000883 and from Wise's Post Office Directory between 1910s and 1920s Source of descriptive information - Note on back of file print reads "Looking down East Street. Baring Square with statue of John Grigg." [Information given by] R. Lambrechtsen, Aug 2002. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Ashburton Protd A W H [No] 374b Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
East Street, Ashburton - Photograph taken by A.W.H.
Date: [between 1915-1930]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
By: Hopkins, Alfred Walter, 1882-1969
Reference: 1/2-000883-G
Description: View of East Street in Ashburton. The business premises of A W Hopkins (bookseller, stationer & photographer), Frank Frost (butcher), and W J Sparrow (tailor and outfitter) are seen on the right side of the road. Photograph taken by A W H (A.W. Hopkins, stationer and bookseller at 55 East Street, Ashburton). Source of descriptive information - Photographer identified as Alfred W Hopkins from this image, and from Wise's Post Office Directory between 1910 and 1920s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - East St. Ashburton Protd A W H Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative