More Info →Upper Manawatu Gorge Bridge and settlement, near Woodville

Description

The Gorge road opened in 1872, and in 1875 when the bridge was built the Government established a tollhouse at the Woodville end to defray the cost of maintaining the road. In 1912 tolls were abolished, the tollhouse was demolished and the small settlement which grew up around the tollhouse disappeared. The telegraph pole on the left of the bridge shows that this photograph was taken after 1879 and the absence of the railway line indicates it was before 1891.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

Public Photograph Collection Go 43

Date

1880s

Digitisation ID

2011N_Go43_004705

Held In

Coolstore