# Biology and Observatory Block and Setting

7 Hereford Street · Central City
https://www.chch.live/place/256
Locality record: [Central City on the register](https://www.chch.live/history/central-city)
Street record: https://www.chch.live/street/christchurch-central-city/hereford-street
What else stood here: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.531853482029206&lon=172.62869795038876
On a walk: [The old university](https://www.chch.live/walks/the-old-varsity)

## Documents tied to this place

*These are leads, not evidence — search results nobody has read yet.* The first 10 of 24 are listed.
- CURRENT TOPICS. (Otago Daily Times, 09 April 1898) (1898-04-09T00:00:00.000Z) — https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18980409.2.23
  > …c life of the arctic and antarctic regions as the heralding of an epoch in the history of biology di nausan thoaght it might be difficult to get on to the antarctic inland ice bat not at au impossible…
- LOCAL & GENERAL, (Otago Witness, 09 June 1883) (1883-06-09T00:00:00.000Z) — https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW18830609.2.17
  > …l as well as pastoral pursuits i am borne out in this opinion by mr russell 01 the sydney observatory who says if your proposal can be carried out so that a great inland sea can be formed and kept ful…
- Central city block, sheet no. 6 (1933-07-01T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/central-city-block-plans/ccl-cs-100822
- Central city block, sheet no. 7 (1933-07-01T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/central-city-block-plans/ccl-cs-100823
- ANZ Bank, Hereford Street (1981-05-02T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/star/prints/1981/ccl-cs-466
- Police building on Hereford Street (1980s) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/shane-duffy/ccl-cs-13994
- Old central police building complex (1973-05-071973-05-12) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/star/negatives/1973/ccl-cs-42816
- Crane above Hereford Street police station (1971-06-011971-06-05) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/star/negatives/1971/ccl-cs-32061
- Hereford Street Bridge plaque (2009-06-07T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/peter-gilmore-collection/ccl-cs-105637
- Christchurch Central Police Station (1973-05-07T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/star/negatives/1973/ccl-cs-42819

## Questions, answered briefly

**What is Biology and Observatory Block and Setting?**

A place on the record in Christchurch Central City, at 7 Hereford Street.

**Where is Biology and Observatory Block and Setting?**

7 Hereford Street, Christchurch Central City — [on the map →](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.531853482029206,172.62869795038876,17)