St Clair Battery (Forbury Head)

Historic Photos

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Description: Gun emplacement being built. 1885

Reference: Coast defense gun, Saint Clair, Dunedin. Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs. Ref: 1/2-105939-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23199061

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Description: Gun emplacement finished, 1880s

Reference: Hocken Library http://hockensnapshop.ac.nz/nodes/view/8579

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Description: St Clair Battery, 1880s

Reference: None, from personal collection

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Description: Overlooking St Clair, circa 1890s

Reference: St Clair, Dunedin, by Burton Brothers studio. Te Papa (C.011791)

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Description: View from beach at St Clair, 1890s

Reference: St. Clair, Dunedin, by Burton Brothers studio. Te Papa (C.015132)

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Description: View from beach at St Clair, 1888

Reference: St Clair Beach, near Dunedin, 1888, Dunedin, by Burton Brothers studio. Te Papa (C.011950)

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Description: Overlooking the battery, circa 1890. Note the 6-pounder gun that is visible

Reference: Overlooking St Clair, Dunedin. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/1-025870-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23083300

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Description: Overlooking the battery circa 1890 (tree is in the way of most of it)

Reference: Coastal view of St Clair Beach, Dunedin, Otago Region. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/2-140654-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23171552

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Description: Overlooking St Clair, circa 1900

Reference: St Clair, Dunedin. Cameron, J G :Negatives of the Cameron and Haggitt families. Ref: 1/2-024846-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22696628

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Description: View from beach at St Clair, circa 1923

Reference: Saint Clair, Dunedin, showing beach and surrounding area. Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand. Ref: 1/2-047673-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22846496

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Description: View from beach at St Clair, 1953

Reference: St Clair, Dunedin. Tourist and Publicity. Ref: 1/2-033454-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22768796

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