PHOTOGRAPHED REMAINS
Sites photographed for the record of military remains
around Wellington.
© Darcy
Waters 1999-2004
Content
Group 1 Structures
/19th Century Works
Group 2 Structures
/Post 1907 Works
All the sites listed have at some time or other been photographed
by Darcy Richard Waters since January
1995. Some sites have been visited on more
than one occasion. The below mentioned sites are comprehensively
covered
unless stated.
NOTE This list should
not be read as including everything that remains.
For each
site listed there is a group number such as BB1 which refers
to where the prints for that
location are filed. This is then followed by the name
or location of the site. The line below
that mentions the photographic coverage that
I have for that site.(digital photos
are temporarily under a differant system although should soon be
using the same numbering system.)
All effort will be made
where possible to revisit sites where the coverage is inadequate.
19Th. Century
- BB1 Gardens Battery - Botanic Gardens
Pre 1910
all except gun pit
interior-it's filled in.
- BB2 Fort Buckley - Wadestown (See also
album Z1)
all.
- BB3 Kaiwharawhara Magazine - Ngaio
Gorge
all that remains
- 1 whole + 1/4 mag. Buildings taken before the Xmas 2000 fire.
Digital
photos of the remains as the WCC are preserving them as.
- BB4 Point Halswell Emplacement (now
Massey Memorial)
all of
inside and a few external.
- BB5 Kau Point Battery
all
except gun pit interior - it's filled in.
- BB5x Kau Point Battery
Associated
structure on hill above emplacement.
Unsure of exactly what it was for (OP?)
- BB6 Mahanga Bay
jetty
area + some foundations of stores.
- BB7 Point Gordon - Magazine by road
Underground
part - rest of low battery is gone.
Fort
Ballance & Assoc.
BB8 General views + Minefield Control + See-saw Searchlight
Emplacement
and Caretakers house.
BB9 N 6", 7"RML and Nordenfeldt emplacements and associated
inc. basement magazine level..
BB10 S 6" and Nordenfeldt , BC Station and associated.
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Post 1907 Bldgs.
- AA series
Wrights Hill Fortress
Comprehensive coverage of the site plus some
photos
of the work being done by the Wrights
Hill Fortress Restoration Society Inc.
- BB11 Structure behind #10/#12
Wellington Road
all.
- BB12 Worser Bay WAAC Hostel
external
only.
- BB13 Bunny Street DoD Building
-(note pictures of poor quality)
A
few external photos only taken at beginning of demolition.
- BB14 Tunnels - Ngaio Gorge
Kaiwarra Stream entrances only from their gates.
- BB15 Beacon Hill Observation Post
all.
- BB16 Mount Albert
all
that is left.
- BB17 Khandallah Park Tunnels
The
entrance and just inside it.
- BB18 Palmer Head - Observation/Radar
Post
all.
- BB19 Palmer
Head - Fortress area (excl. Observation post)
Photos of what little remains on the surface.
As
well as of the underground plotting rooms
and
radio rooms.
- BB20 Port War Signal Station - Point
Halswell
all that remains.
AA Batteries
- BB21 Somes Island AA Battery (3-7 "
heavy AA Batteries)
all
- .BB22 Mount Crawford AA Battery
all.
- BB23 Pol. Hill Brooklyn AA Battery
all
- BB25 Fort
Opau coastal battery
the battery and all that remains of the camp area.
- BB26 Belmont
Magazine area
Photos of examples of types of magazines present
due
to the size of the magazine area.
Fort
Dorset
- BB30 Fort Dorset - Point Dorset ridge
line
all that remains along the ridge that runs along
the shoreline to the south and East of the camp.
- BB31 Fort Dorset - 1990's Base area
- South of Parade Ground
all grounds and interiors of most bldg's. (Before demolition)
- BB32 Fort Dorset - 1990's Base area
- The Parade ground and North of it.
All grounds and interiors of most bldg's. (Before demolition)
- BB33 Fort Dorset - General
general
views of the grounds.
- Digital Photos taken late in the demolition and during/after
school construction.
Shelly
Bay
- BB34 Road/Magazine area
behind base
front
views of mag's. + Interior photos of one of them..
- BB35 Base (Air Force)
Some
general views and interiors of a few of the buildings.
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of page.
Mt. Cook
- BB38 Department Editor Art/Craft
advisors + 1990's Defence reserve
external general views only.
- BB39 Ex DoD houses/ Ex Dominion Museum/Wellington
High School
few of houses, externals of EPS tunnel entrances.
- BB40 "Fighter Command" underground building
all
- BB43 Miramar Cutting - 2 structures
All
of both - 1 brick and 1 concrete set into the hill side.
Concrete
one was for fuel pumping (not military)
Brick one was a dynamite store for a civilian company.
- BB44 Silverstream Hospital - Nurses
home
External shots only.
- BB45 Silverstream Hospital
Externals
of the buildings and grounds with
only
a couple of interior shots
(Yet
to revisit to photograph the interiors.)
Wanganui Sites
- BB71 Languard Bluff 5" Coastal
Battery,
command/observation
post and the emplacement with it's built in magazine.
- BB72 Pill Box S of Seafront Rd, Castlecliff,
all
- BB73 Pill Box Short Street, Castlecliff,
all
- BB74 Pill Box bottom of Seafront Rd,
Castlecliff,
all
- BB75 Pill Box? off end of Morgan Street,
Castlecliff,
all
- (digital photos) Pill boxes at Languard
Bluff
all
of one and part of another.
Also update visits to Castlecliff pillboxes.
PLEASE NOTE :
While this list was correct as at 24th January 2004
it is subject to revision as sites already visited are revisited
and new sites are visited. Thus sites listed
as not fully covered will eventually be completely covered.
Also digital images of the above
sites while in site-by-site folders are still in the process of
being intergrated into the filing system.
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(text based)
SITES PHOTOGRAPHED
sites photographed for the record of military remains
around Wellington.
© Darcy
Waters 1999-2004
E-mail me on capdef@orcon.net.nz
