Digital Photograph: Earthquake Damage to the Plunket Rooms on Sumner Road, Lyttelton

Maker
Michael Davies
Production date
25 February 2011
 Description
One portrait colour digital photograph taken on 25 February 2011 showing damage to the Plunket Rooms on Sumner Road. Also visible in the photograph are the rear of the former Library and Fire Station, 2 London Street and the eastern end of The Church of the Most Holy Trinity.
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Maker
Production place
Lyttelton/Christchurch/Canterbury/South Island/New Zealand
Collecting unit
Pictorial
Production role
Photographer
Researcher comments/remarks
When the Lyttelton Plunket Rooms were demolished in July 2012, archaeological evidence of the house of John Robert Godley, built in 1850, was uncovered. John Robert Godley was the Canterbury Association's Agent in New Zealand. Described by his wife Charlotte, in a letter to her mother back in England, as being ‘the best looking house we have seen yet in New Zealand; six rooms and a kind of pantry’, the house stood on this site until the 1940s when the brick Plunket Rooms were built. The investigation of the site recorded post holes and a drip line which showed the outline of the original house.
Associated place
Lyttelton/Christchurch/Canterbury/South Island/New Zealand
Associated place notes
Sumner Road
Associated event
Earthquake, 22 February 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand
Associated event notes
Damage caused
Associated period
2011/2010s
Current rights
Creative Commons - CC BY-NC
Current rights code
Creative Commons - CC BY-NC
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Other id
DSC03588
Accession number
2013.17.29

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