Edmonds Clock Tower, Telephone Cabinet and Setting

295F Madras Street · Central City

The encyclopaedia on it

Edmonds Clock Tower is a clock tower in Christchurch, New Zealand. Created by baking powder manufacturer Thomas Edmonds in 1929 to celebrate his 50th year of living in the city, it has been listed with Heritage New Zealand as a Category 2 historic place since 1981.

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What is known

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Telephone cabinet and clock tower — 11 Oct 2015
Clock tower and telephone cabinet — 11 Oct 2015
Edmonds' Telephone Cabinet — 30 Dec 2017
Edmonds' Clock Tower and Avon River — 11 Oct 2015
Decorative electric lamps on Oxford Terrace — 1 Jan 1930
Page 6 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 10 March 1906) …laid out conservatory and fern house all connected with the may-oatway fire alarm system telephone etc the outside buildings include large roomy 8-staled stable trapsheds fowlhouses bicycle shed appl… — 10 Mar 1906
Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 01 August 1902) …e and financial agent hotel broker and valuer 172 lichfieid street christchurch po box 91 telephone 448 x3039 bring your lamps to be fitted with burn ers wicks chimneys shades globes or illuminators a… — 1 Aug 1902
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 06 May 1903) …useful grummivt white and co st asaph btreefc 6665 wanted to lot workshop suit joiner or cabinetmaker apply 37 madras street anted to exchange minorca cockerel pure-bred head ebfit oxley sweet st alb… — 6 May 1903
Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 03 March 1902) …requires lady-help housekeepers cooks generals for town and country highest rate of wages telephone 497 a tjtumn shipments of mantles jackets fjk mackintoshes children ulsters etc now oeing shown beat… — 3 Mar 1902
Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 20 April 1901) …the balance by easy monthly payments h l bowker and son j estate agents victoria syuare i telephone 336 1 tvtew modern dwellings for sale jn hl bowker and son i 248 colombo street victoria square i te… — 20 Apr 1901

Nearby on the register

Dwellings and Setting — 86 Chester Street East
Poplars, Lamp Standards and Setting
Dwellings and Setting — 100 Chester Street East
Former Vicarage of the Church of St Luke the Evangelist and Setting — 185 Kilmore Street
Former MED Converter Station and Substation — 102/210 Armagh Street
Former Church of St Luke the Evangelist Bell Tower and Setting — 258 Manchester Street
Latimer Square and Setting
Edmonds Band Rotunda Area including Rotunda, Shelter, Balustrades, Landing and Lamp Standards and Setting — 230 Cambridge Terrace

The reports nearby

4,241 council reports pinned within 250 m of the place — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 3,510 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.