Municipal Electricity Department collection
Converter station and yard, Armagh Street : Image 1 of 1
- Title Converter station and yard, Armagh Street, 1932
- Creator Municipal Electricity Department
- Date 1932
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- Image 1 of 1
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- Physical Description Size of original : 20 x 16 cm. Digital file from original photograph. Scanned 2011. Equipment: Cruse CS185 Scanner; format tiff, 300 ppi.
- Notes Photograph caption: Armagh Street Converter Station and Yard May 1932. View from road.
Yard and buildings at Armagh Street, May 1932. At bottom left is the wooden stave tank used to store water for the tepid baths. Destructor chimney at right, and below it is the destructor ramp which leads into the original building housing the destructor and steam plant. The building to the left of the destructor ramp is the converter station, constructed in 1914 and rebuilt in 1932-33. Christchurch. A City of Light, p. 64.
- Source Archive 1050
- Collection Name
- Collection Description A collection of photographs of Christchurch and surrounds taken in the course of the business of the Municipal Electricity Department. The images document the building of the M.E.D. building in the 1930s, various types of the electrical infrastructure, and includes views of the city from early to mid twentieth century.
- Parent Collection
- Parent Collection Description
- Collection Location Christchurch City Libraries Archive collection
- File Reference CCL-MED-0048
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