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

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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, 20 January 1889

Reference: HMS Calliope, Wellington Harbour. Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936 : Collection of negatives. Ref: 1/2-010305-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23089607

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Description: View of Point Halswell, circa 1890

Reference: Looking down at ships along the wharf, Wellington. Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives. Ref: 1/1-020671-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22347619

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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: View of empty gun emplacement at Point Halswell, 1925

Reference:  Southland Times, 20 May 1925, Page 8. From Papers Past: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19250520.2.67.1 

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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: A general view of the site, 1927

Reference: Military Reserve, Point Halswell, Wellington. Ref: 1/1-006711-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22384381

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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