Point Halswell Battery
Historic Photos
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Description: View of Point Halswell, circa 1885. This shows the area before construction on the gun emplacements had started
Reference: Ship Ionic, Wellington Harbour. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/2-140317-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22330168
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Description: View of Point Halswell, 1880s
Reference: Unidentified ship on Wellington Harbour. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/2-140483-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22568415
Copyright status: No known copyright
Description: View of Point Halswell, circa 1885
Reference: A view of Thorndon showing part of Wellington Harbour and Halswell Point. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/1-025529-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22306818
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Description: View of Point Halswell, 1880s
Reference: Thorndon, and Wellington Harbour. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/1-025717-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22302164
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Description: View of Point Halswell, 1913
Reference: Part 4 of a 6 part panorama of Wellington Harbour during the 1913 Waterfront Strike. Simmonds, E J: Six part panorama of Wellington Harbour during the 1913 Waterfront Strike taken by David James Aldersley. Ref: PAColl-5551-4. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23021836
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Description: Massey State Funeral, note the defensive wall, with caretakers cottage behind, 1925
Reference: State funeral, memorial of Prime Minister William Ferguson Massey, Miramar, Wellington. Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints. Ref: 1/1-037370-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22687952
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Description: Massey State Funeral, note the entrance way to the underground tunnels, 1925
Reference: State funeral of Prime Minister William Ferguson Massey , Miramar, Wellington. Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints. Ref: 1/2-192772-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22837236
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Description: Remembering Massey's death, May 1927, note the observation post at the top left and the caretakers cottage and defensive wall at the right
Reference: Wreath laying at the temporary Massey Memorial, Point Halswell. Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints. Ref: 1/2-203319-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22311323
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Description: Note Point Halswell in the background, 1927
Reference: 2YA radio station under construction, Mt Victoria, Wellington. Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper. Ref: EP-0997-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22596175
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Description: Gun barrel unearthed at Point Halswell, 1956
Reference: An unidentified man inspecting a cannon half-buried in the bank at Point Halswell, Wellington. Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper. Ref: EP/1956/0938-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22734870
Copyright status: Unknown - see National Library website