Photograph, The Water Tower, Invercargill

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Photograph, The Water Tower, Invercargill

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Te Hikoi Museum

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Description

A black and white photograph of the Invercargill Water Tower and Water Works Buildings. Fire always threatened colonial towns, where the mix of wooden buildings and dry summer spells could be an explosive combination. Local authorities struggled to supply adequate amounts of pressurised water and 19th-century New Zealand suffered many great fires. In the late 1880s the Invercargill Borough Council decided to build a water tower on part of the green belt. Ratepayers wanted the tower but not on...

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Format

Image

Date created

1925-1930

Creator

Anderson. A.T

URL

https://ehive.com/collections/3278/objects/1917804

Related subjects

Buildings and Structures / Business and Retail / Buildings & Structures / 1920s

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