Known as The Junction, here’s the intersection of Papanui Road, Salisbury, Montreal and Victoria Streets in 1899. If you are still feeling a little lost, if that old fella was standing there (Victoria Street) today, he would have the Victoria Clock Tower behind him. What’s amazing is that the Victoria Clock Tower had another home …
The design and the build of the Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings were such a great achievement for the young colony of Christchurch. The designer, Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort, I’m sure had plans for a clock tower from the time he began to draw up the plans. As Benjamin designed the iron work that would encase the …
With Queen Victoria celebrating her diamond jubilee, Christchurch wanted to acknowledge the occasion. A clock, that had been imported for the Canterbury Provincial Chambers in 1860 – which proved to be too heavy – was brought out of storage, along with its iron work, and a competition to design the rest of what would be …
