Description: Fort Ballance, circa 1887

Reference: Fort Ballance, Scorching Bay, Wellington. Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives. Ref: 1/1-020667-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23212316

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Description: This is the right hand 7" RML emplacement, shortly after construction, circa 1886

Reference: Gun emplacement at Fort Ballance, Wellington. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/2-140344-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22917815

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Description: Photo of Point Gordon, circa 1900

Reference:  Collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, 16587 https://collection.mtghawkesbay.com/objects/82668/wellington-harbour

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Description: Mahanga Bay, 1907

Reference: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19070411-12-1

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Description: Mahanga Bay, 1907

Reference: Crowd at a Mahanga Bay military camp open day, Miramar, Wellington. Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand. Ref: 1/1-020238-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23223455

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Description: Mahanga Bay, 1908

Reference: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19080227-6-6

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Description: Mahanga Bay, 1908

Reference: Mahanga Bay, Miramar, Wellington. Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand. Ref: 1/1-024938-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22739033

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Description: Mahanga Bay, 1912. Note the tramway up to Fort Ballance in the background

Reference: NZGA No. 9 Company at Mahanga Bay Military Camp, Wellington. Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand. Ref: 1/1-022853-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23147603

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Description: Low Battery, showing the construction of a firing trench during a training camp for officers and senior non-commissioned officers of the North Island Railway Battalion, 1914

Reference: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19140702-52-3

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Description: Not confirmed, but this is possibly Fort Gordon, circa 1920.

Reference: Wairarapa Archive https://masterton.spydus.co.nz/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/ARCENQ?RNI=654127

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Description:  Not confirmed, but this is possibly the breech of the gun at Fort Gordon, circa 1920

Reference: Wairarapa Archive https://masterton.spydus.co.nz/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/ARCENQ?RNI=654135

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Description: Scorching Bay, 1923. Look at the top right to see Fort Ballance

Reference: Scorching Bay, Wellington. Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand. Ref: 1/2-047345-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22780870

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Description: Scorching Bay, 1936. Note that Fort Gordon is visible, although the gunpit has been converted into a magazine

Reference: Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Description: Scorching Bay, October 1937. Look at the top right to see Fort Ballance. Note that the gunpits have been converted to magazines at this stage and it is possible to make out the roofs that were added

Reference: Scorching Bay, Wellington. Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper. Ref: PAColl-9150-12. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22341889

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Description: Searchlight camp at former Low Battery, 1940-41

Reference: None, from personal collection

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Description: Searchlight camp at former Low Battery, 1940-41

Reference: None, from personal collection

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Description: Fort Ballance, October 1942. Note the roofed over gunpit at the right

Reference: The holder of original image is Alexander Turnbull Library, War History Collection, PACOLL4161-55-A. This version sourced from book: Page A-14 of Defending New Zealand, Ramparts on the Sea 1840-1950s, by Peter Cooke (3rd Impression, November 2000)

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Description: Director tower for the twin 6-pounder gun, circa 1944

Reference: The holder of original image is the Army Museum. This version sourced from book: Page D-5 of Defending New Zealand, Ramparts on the Sea 1840-1950s, by Peter Cooke (3rd Impression, November 2000)

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Description: Contrary to the caption at the National Library, this is a photo of the twin 6-pounder gun at Point Gordon, 1940s

Reference: Front view of a coastal defence gun, Fort Dorset, New Zealand. New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency. Ref: PAColl-4161-01-020-77-41. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22782880

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Description: Twin 6-pounder emplacement, 1948

Reference: Military installations, Point Gordon, Wellington. Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper. Ref: 1/2-090690-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22328383

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Description: See-saw searchlight emplacement, 1949

Reference: Derek on fort - above Scorching Bay, 27 December 1949, by Leslie Adkin. Te Papa (A.009180)

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Description: Fort Ballance, circa 1950s

Reference:  Fort Ballance, Scorching Bay, Wellington. New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives. Ref: PAColl-5936-59. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23156831

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Description: Control tower for twin 6-pounder emplacement, 18 November 1959

Reference: View of an army explosives truck and an unidentified soldier examining a concrete control tower with plans to demolish it, Wellington Region. Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper. Ref: EP/1959/3918-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/30658643

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Description: Control tower for twin 6-pounder emplacement after demolition, 18 November 1959

Reference: View of unidentified army soldiers examining their work after blowing up a concrete control tower, Wellington Region. Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper. Ref: EP/1959/3917-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/30662010

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Description: Low Battery magazine entrances, 28 September 1959

Reference: Ammunitions magazine, Scorching Bay, Wellington Region. Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper. Ref: EP/1959/3269-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/30664916

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Description: View of houses at Fort Ballance, 17 May 1990. The fort can be seen in the background on the right

Reference: Defence Department houses, Fort Ballance, Wellington, New Zealand - Photograph taken by Mark Round.. Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers. Ref: EP/1990/1756/12A-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23189602

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Description: View of Fort Ballance after the removal of the defence housing, 16 March 1992

Reference: Wellington City Council Archives, 00540-1-33

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