Alfred Tanner

Description

Alfred Tanner died in September 1902, aged 67. He was a stone mason and brick layer who worked on the construction of the Carroll building, the first Gasworks, The Opera House and the Public Hospitial. According to family history Alfred once lived in a hut on a manuka patch that became a part of the Square, had a farm at Tiakitahuna, and later in the Kairanga District. Mr Tanner was the father of Mrs Hannah Eades, of Woodville.

Identification

Relation

Public Photograph Collection Pi 596

Date

circa 1880 to circa 1889

Digitisation id

2013N_Pi596_006876

Held in

Coolstore