Digital Photograph: Retaining Wall, Sumner Road, Lyttelton

Maker
Michael Davies
Production date
27 May 2013
 Description
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 27 May 2013 of a retaining wall in Sumner Road which was replaced due to earthquake damage. The original wall was created using red volcanic rock. Many walls like this were built using the Hard Labour Gang from the Lyttelton Gaol. The replacement wall has a small section of stone installed to show what the wall used to look like. It is intended to reface the wall using stone salvaged from collapsed walls.
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Maker
Production place
Lyttelton/Christchurch/Canterbury/South Island/New Zealand
Collecting unit
Pictorial
Production role
Photographer
Researcher comments/remarks
Prior to the earthquakes, many of Lyttelton’s retaining walls were constructed from red volcanic rock. A large proportion of these were originally built by inmates of the Lyttelton Gaol who had been sentenced to hard labour. These walls were recognised by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in the Lyttelton Historic Area that was registered by the Trust in 2009. The new walls are being built with the provision to eventually reface them with a skin of stone if and when funding becomes available. At the base of this new concrete wall a small section has been left to show what the walls used to look like.
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Associated place
Lyttelton/Christchurch/Canterbury/South Island/New Zealand
Associated place notes
Sumner Road
Associated event
Earthquake 4 September 2010; 04 September 2010; Canterbury/South Island/New Zealand
Earthquake, 22 February 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand
Earthquake, 13 June 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand
Associated period
2013/2010s
Current rights
Creative Commons - CC BY-NC
Current rights code
Creative Commons - CC BY-NC
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Other id
DSC06467
Accession number
2013.17.142

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