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A short film, probably from the 1950s, showing the 3.7-inch guns at Battery Point during a practice shoot.
Description: One of the two original 7-inch guns emplaced in 1885
Reference: From personal collection
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Description: The 'N' Battery, Garrison Artillery in Camp at Battery Point Barracks, 1899
Reference: Lyttelton Museum, Object 14986.114
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Description: The Lyttelton Navals in camp at Battery Point, 1900
Reference: Lyttelton Museum, Object 14985.66
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Description: Battery Point in the background, 1908, note how barren the area is
Reference: Three ships, including an ocean liner, sailing in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch. The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives. Ref: 1/2-040930-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/29939307
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Description: Battery Point camp, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point camp, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point camp, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point camp, April 1939
Reference: View from a Port Hills rock outcrop to Governors Bay Road and a [military barracks?] above Rapaki Bay, Lyttelton Harbour, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury Region. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/4-095491-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/30627681
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Description: Battery Point camp, circa 1939
Reference: Archives NZ, CH540, 3.6
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Description: Battery Point showing the emplacement of one of the 4-inch guns, 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point showing the emplacement of one of the 4-inch guns, 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point showing one of the 4-inch guns, 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point, 4-inch gun, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point, 4-inch gun, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point, 4-inch gun, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point, 4-inch gun, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point, 4-inch gun reloading, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point, 4-inch gun, loading cordite charge into breech, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point, 4-inch gun in recoil, circa 1939
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Description: Battery Point, 4-inch gun firing, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Four inch battery, circa 1939
Reference: Alexander Turnbull Library, War History Collection, PA 4161-40C
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Description: Four inch battery, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point showing the new 4-inch guns and the lower 7-inch gun emplacement, 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point showing the new 4-inch gun battery after the 7-inch gun emplacement has been filled in, circa 1939
Reference: Alexander Turnbull Library
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Description: Battery Point cookhouse, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point, engine room for searchlights, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point, searchlight,, circa 1939
Reference: Personal collection
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Description: Battery Point, 3.7-inch gun , circa 1955
Reference: Personal collection
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