The central city, decade by decade.
Pick a listed place and see the ground under it in six aerial survey flights: 1925, 1935, 1940, 1960, 1970 and 1975. The city you know was built on top of most of what is in these frames.
Pick a listed place
Every place here is in the District Plan heritage schedule, inside the four avenues. The register records the place and its list number; it does not yet record which of them still stand, so this page does not claim a building is gone. It shows you what was at that corner, decade by decade, and lets the photograph say the rest.
Reading the register…
The corner
Everything the record holds near itAerial frames from Canterbury Maps and partners, CC BY 3.0 NZ, cut on request at the place's own coordinates by the archive. A decade with no clean frame at that pin says so rather than showing the nearest one.