Municipal Electricity Department collection

City Council power plant, Armagh Street : Image 1 of 1

Image of City Council power plant, Armagh Street, 1905 1905

  • Title City Council power plant, Armagh Street, 1905
  • Creator Municipal Electricity Department
  • Date 1905
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  • Physical Description Size of original : 15 x 11 cm. Digital file from original photograph. Scanned 2011. Equipment: Cruse CS185 Scanner; format tiff, 300 ppi.
  • Notes Photograph caption: City Council Power Plant 1905 Armagh Street 2/100 KW sets 220 volts.
    Dynamo room, showing the original two 100 KW generating sets on right (generators in centre of photograph and engines nearer to wall). Switchboard on the left, and on far wall, just above wooden chair, is the battery regulator. The battery room is on the other side of the far wall. Christchurch. A City of Light, p. 18 .
  • 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.
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  • Collection Location Christchurch City Libraries Archive collection
  • File Reference CCL-MED-0015

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    This material has been digitised from the Archives and Manuscripts collection of Christchurch City Libraries.