# Signal Box and Setting

1 Norwich Quay · Lyttelton
https://www.chch.live/place/364
Locality record: [Lyttelton on the register](https://www.chch.live/history/lyttelton)
Street record: https://www.chch.live/street/lyttelton/norwich-quay
What else stood here: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.60431093964499&lon=172.72278791419285
On a walk: [The port’s first streets](https://www.chch.live/walks/lyttelton-harbour)

## Documents tied to this place

*These are leads, not evidence — search results nobody has read yet.* The first 10 of 38 are listed.
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 27 October 1860) (1860-10-27T00:00:00.000Z) — https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18601027.2.15.2
  > …istles and watches id each china wax and crying dolls india rubber balls in great variety signal horns and trumpets large draft and chess men and boards water colour boxes acin immense variety guns bo…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 03 November 1860) (1860-11-03T00:00:00.000Z) — https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18601103.2.2.2
  > …istles and watches id each china wax and crying dolls india rubber balls in great variety signal horns and trumpets large draft and chess men and boards water colour boxes c in immense variety guns bo…
- Shipping News. (Lyttelton Times, 15 May 1858) (1858-05-15T00:00:00.000Z) — https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18580515.2.8
  > …e bells are laid on for other ports of i new zealand a ship doubtless the montmorency was signalled outside yesterday but had not arrived at the anchorage at tjhe time of our going to press j…
- Local Intelligence. (Lyttelton Times, 19 September 1857) (1857-09-19T00:00:00.000Z) — https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18570919.2.13
  > …portion of oxford street on the arrival of the james gibson from otago the other day the signals on mount pleasant were made use of for the first time for some months the cause of the omission had be…
- AKAROA. (Star, 27 February 1869) (1869-02-27T00:00:00.000Z) — https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18690227.2.3.3
  > …s vessel to the inefficiency of the pilotage system and asserted that if his messages and signals had been attended to by the pilots tbe formosa would have come safely into port argus feb 11…
- Lyttelton signal box (2016-05-16T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/cafe-cecil/ccl-cs-61623
- ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS. (Ashburton Guardian, 21 June 1911) (1911-06-21T00:00:00.000Z) — https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19110621.2.17
  > …it appears that mills who was in the habit of riding on the train from the station to the signal-box and dropping off at thesignal-box boarded the 645 train at christchurch at the station last evening…
- A THOUGHTLESS ACT. (Star, 02 March 1905) (1905-03-02T00:00:00.000Z) — https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19050302.2.28
  > …man passing over the tunnel mouth saw him go in and informed the official in the adjacent signal-box the latter telephoned to tne lyttelton station but in the meantime the special train with the passe…
- VERY CLOSE TO DEATH. (Northern Advocate, 21 June 1911) (1911-06-21T00:00:00.000Z) — https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19110621.2.21.5
  > …d railway hand had been in tbe habit of riding on the train from lyttelton station to the signal box a feav chains distant last night he over-ran the usual place for dropping off and did not jump till…
- EXTRA EDITION. SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. (Evening Post, 21 June 1911) (1911-06-21T00:00:00.000Z) — https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19110621.2.96
  > …nced railway hand had been in the habit of riding on trains from lyttelton station to the signal-box a few chains distant 1 last night he overran tbe usual place for dropping off and did not jump till…

## Questions, answered briefly

**What is Signal Box and Setting?**

A place on the record in Lyttelton, at 1 Norwich Quay.

**Where is Signal Box and Setting?**

1 Norwich Quay, Lyttelton — [on the map →](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.60431093964499,172.72278791419285,17)
