More Info →Barbed wire at the Showgrounds

Description

This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981. Barbed wire was erected around the Showgrounds and barricades blocked parts of Cuba Street in anticipation of anti-Apartheid and anti-Springbok Tour protests during the rugby match played between the Springboks and Manawatū on 1 August 1981.

Army engineers from Linton camp erected barbed wire (made of three coils stacked in pyramid formation, held in place by stakes) under the cover of darkness the night before as a training exercise. They ran some 400 meters from Waldegrave Street to Pascal street.

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Date

August 1, 1981

Digitisation ID

2021N_2017-20_034781_003

Format

B&W negative