Fort Bastion
Historic Photos
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Description: The fort is in the distance on the left, circa 1910
Reference: View of Orakei Beach, Auckland. Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives. Ref: 1/2-000774-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22841271
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Description: Bastion Point in 1916. The search light emplacement can be clearly seen on the right (the white bit in the side of the cliff)
Reference: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 7-A3419 (http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aucklandcity.govt.nz%2Fdbtw-wpd%2FHeritageImages%2Findex.htm&AC=QBE_QUERY&TN=heritageimages&QF0=ID&NP=2&MR=5&RF=HIORecordSearch&QI0=%3D%227-A3419%22)
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Description: Bastion Point, 27 December 1931, shows the exposed tunnel of the searchlight emplacement, following the cutting back of the cliffs and the resulting demolition of the emplacement
Reference: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 4-5374 (http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aucklandcity.govt.nz%2Fdbtw-wpd%2FHeritageImages%2Findex.htm&AC=QBE_QUERY&TN=heritageimages&QF0=ID&NP=2&MR=5&RF=HIORecordSearch&QI0=%3D%224-5374%22)
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Description: Fort Bastion, 1940
Reference: Auckland War Memorial Museum: Bastion Point - gun emplacement. (Russian scare, Fort Bastion.), Unknown, photographer, PH-RES-4293, Investigate (https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_library-photography-65120)
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Description: Fort Bastion, 1940, showing disappearing gun
Reference: Auckland War Memorial Museum: Bastion Point - 6" disappearing gun, Unknown, photographer, PH-NEG-M423 (35-36)-C22606 (https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_library-photography-54140)
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Description: Fort Bastion, 1940, showing gun pit with partially dismounted gun
Reference: Auckland War Memorial Museum: Bastion Point - gun emplacement, Unknown, photographer, PH-NEG-M423 (37-38)-C22609 (https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_library-photography-54141)
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Description: Fort Bastion, 1940, showing gun pit
Reference: Auckland War Memorial Museum: Bastion Point - gun emplacement, Unknown, photographer, PH-RES-4294, Investigate (https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_library-photography-65121)
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Description: Fort Bastion, 1940, showing gun pit
Reference: Auckland War Memorial Museum: Bastion Point - gun emplacement, Unknown, photographer, PH-NEG-M423 (39-41)-C22608 (https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_library-photography-54142)
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Description: Work at Fort Bastion for Michael Joseph Savage's funeral. Shows wooden frames for wreaths being erected on both sides of the path from the old gateway over which an archway is being constructed, 1940
Reference: Papers Past - https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19400330.2.25.4
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Description: Bastion Point searchlight emplacements under construction, 1943
Reference: The holder of original image is the Army Museum. This version sourced from book: Page D-4 of Defending New Zealand, Ramparts on the Sea 1840-1950s, by Peter Cooke (3rd Impression, November 2000)
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Description: Bastion Point Twin 6-pounder emplacement in front of the Yacht Club building, 1943
Reference: The holder of original image is the Army Museum. This version sourced from book: Page D-4 of Defending New Zealand, Ramparts on the Sea 1840-1950s, by Peter Cooke (3rd Impression, November 2000)
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