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Horse drawn drainage installation

1940

James Mayo Jnr and James Mayo Snr running new drainage along a ...

Gordon Ogilvie on the Port Hills

1940s

Canterbury Author and Historian Gordon Ogilvie as a young boy on ...

George Thomas Hawker from New Brighton, known as 'The Father of New Brighton'

June 1920

George Thomas Hawker from New Brighton, known as 'The Father of ...

Woolston Primary School pupils crossing a makeshift bridge.

21 March 1986

Woolston Primary School pupils crossing a makeshift bridge.

Children playing in floodwater on Wimborne Cres, Wainoni.

13 March 1986

Children playing in floodwater on Wimborne Cres, Wainoni.

Milkman on flooded Rowcliffe Crescent

21 December 1963

A milkman delivers milk to residents of flooded Rowclfife ...

Children in floodwater on Waitaki Street, Bexley.

2 March 1973

Children in floodwater on Waitaki Street, Bexley.

Kirsty Gillespie on stilts outside Chisnall Intermediate

7 July 1986

Kirsty Gillespie standing on stilts outside Chisnall ...

Jetboat on flooded Clarendon Terrace

3 January 1980

Jetboat on flooded Clarendon Terrace.

Flooding on Ebbtide Road, South Brighton.

13 April 1968

Flooding on Ebbtide Road, South Brighton.

Flooded park on Beachville Road

11 April 1968

Flooded park on Beachville Road.

Aldwins Road in flood

21 March 1979

Jessie Hicks of Linwood on flooded Aldwins Road.

Flooded Falsgrave-Mowbray street subway

29 May 1968

Water being pumped from the flooded Falsgrave-Mowbray street ...

A flooded Hobson street property.

ca. 1970

The Chihuahua of G. Lawrence atop of a kennel in the flooded ...

Syril Cron cleaning boots

24 January 1976

Syril Cron cleaning the boots of his New Brighton marching team.

Marching trophies and medals

19 May 1984

Marching trophies and medals.

The McAlpine Stars marching team at Lancaster Park

26 January 1980

The McAlpine Stars marching team at Lancaster Park.

Travelfar Coaching team at Porrit Park

27 November 1976

Travelfar Coaching team at Canterbury Marching Centre ...

Retaining wall slipping onto home, Redcliffs

28 August 1976

Looking down onto a retaining wall that has slipped onto the ...

Slip on the Summit Road

9 February 1965

View along Summit Road near the Bridle Path of a road slip where ...

A collapsed bank beneath a house

18 September 1976

View of a collapsed bank beneath the holiday home of surgeon, ...

Rockfall on the road near Scarborough

26 October 1982

Aftermath of a rockfall at Scarborough partially blocking the ...

Burst water main on Cashel Street

23 April 1987

View of a flooded corner of Cashel Street and Fitzgerald Avenue. ...

Electric pumps at Burwood pump station

8 December 1961

Interior of the new Burwood automatic pump station and of newly ...

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