Former Lyttelton Gaol Site

26D Oxford Street · Lyttelton

What is known

Nothing is recorded about this place yet.

It is on a register, which is how it got onto this map, but no statement about its past has been read out of a source and written down. When one is, it will appear here with the document it came from beside it.

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The street it stands on — then and now

**Then** — 2005 · Oxford Street and London Street in Lyttelton

Now — Google Street View, 2025-04

The photograph names Oxford Street in its title — the street the register gives this place — and its copy is hosted under the source record’s stated rights. The frame is the street as it stands, the pose verified outside Lyttelton Health Centre. The street’s own record → · the whole collection →

Leads, unread first 10 of 41

What a search of DigitalNZ returned for this place. Nobody has read these yet, so nothing here is being asserted about the ground.

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. (Lyttelton Times, 04 December 1861) …t-office and some correspondence had taken place on the subject between the postmaster at lyttelton and the general government copies of which should be laid before the house at its next sitting the p… — 4 Dec 1861
SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND. (Lyttelton Times, 05 March 1862) …a meritorious public servant who has lately resigned the office of warden of the gaol at lyttelton mr reston hi held that office for about seven years during which period he discharged its varied and… — 5 Mar 1862
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 26 September 1857) …irts and accounts collected john t parkinson tgc-k commission agent auctioneer valuer etc lyttelton ps all communications left at mr harts white hart christchurch or at mr parkinsons london street lyt… — 26 Sept 1857
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. (Lyttelton Times, 19 December 1860) …t total there is duo to the treasury in respect of ad vances on acct of the specific item lyttelton christchurch railwaythe sum 0f 0400 0 0 1054 12 1 so that iff reality supposing railway loan tohave… — 19 Dec 1860
Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 26 January 1861) …fancy bread biscuit baker general confectionbb and ginger beer manufacturer canterbury st lyttelton nbpublic and private parties supplied on moderate terms j d bam ford solicitor office steeet lyttelt… — 26 Jan 1861
Provincial Council. (Lyttelton Times, 29 October 1859) …rovided that the goverment should bear half the expense the bill was useless except i for lyttelton whose grievances though great were but small compared to the difficulties which ho saw looming in th… — 29 Oct 1859
Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 26 November 1856) …the previous monday or thursday t 0 le t building plots in the best part o f tle town of lyttelton apply to f noble campbell co oxford st 10 oct issg for sal e in the vicinity of lyttelton one hundre… — 26 Nov 1856
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 26 August 1857) …accounts collected john t parkinson sto c x cxm mi sis lon a gen t auctioneer valuer etc lyttelton ps all communications left at mr harts white hart christchurch or at mr parkinsons london street lyt… — 26 Aug 1857
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. (Lyttelton Times, 01 December 1860) …could not abstain from making some remarks upon it he mr c would take tho hon member for lyttelton own figures the hon member had shown that the province of marlborough after providing for the expens… — 1 Dec 1860
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. (Lyttelton Times, 27 October 1860) …00 0 0 expenditure as per estimates of 185-89 72616 10 0 less vote for new custom house atlyttelton 1500 0 0 part of vofe for legislative iooo 0 0 vote for censuslooo 0 0 3500 0 0 r 69116100 108952 12… — 27 Oct 1860

Nearby on the register

Cobblestone Gutters and Setting
Dwelling and Setting — 32 St Davids Street
Dwelling and Setting — 30 St Davids Street
Dwelling and Setting — 34 St Davids Street
Dwelling and Setting — 28 St Davids Street
Former Court Queen of the Isles Foresters' Lodge Hall and Setting — 26 St Davids Street
Former Lyttelton Police Station Cells and Setting — 5 Sumner Road
Former Warder's House and Setting — 39 Oxford Street

The reports nearby

1,394 council reports pinned within 250 m of the place — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Water & drains, 1,183 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.