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Description

This postcard photograph was taken from the Lakelet quadrant in The Square, looking across to the corner of Church Street West. Some features include (from left): the domed structure is the observatory, built 1906 and demolished in 1938; the cannon was one of two placed in The Square 1909; the original Lakelet Bridge, built 1909; the brick All Saints Church was completed 1914-1915; the Grand Hotel was built 1906.

Identification

Object type
Postcard
Archive
Postcard Collection
Date
circa 1915
Digitisation ID
2016P_Postcard22_013208
Format
Postcard
Held In
Coolstore

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Taxonomy

Tags
hannahs,
manawatu standard,
singer machines,
Community Tags
all saints church,
cannon,
club hotel,
grand hotel,

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