Image collection: Banks Peninsula

This is a sample of photographs of Banks Peninsula. You can search the catalogue for more or browse the collections.

Port Lyttelton, showing the first four ships and emigrants landing from the Cressy, December 28th 1850 [28 Dec. 1850]	Captain Thomas White (1810-1896) and family, Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula [1864?]	The Lyttelton portal of the Lyttelton Rail Tunnel with construction workers [1867]
Akaroa looking south to the wharf in French Bay, with the Anglican Church at the left [ca. 1870] F. Bradley & Co.	Barry's Bay, Banks Peninsula [ca. 1886]	Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula, from Echo Hill [ca. 1886]
The Little River railway station : the coach shown leaving for Akaroa [1895]	Lighthouse, Akaroa [1898]	William Birdling (1822-1902) of Birdlings Flat, Canterbury [1900?]
The coach to Akaroa at Duvauchelle's Bay, Banks Peninsula [1910]	J.H. Manson and E.H. Manson (father and son) starting in London Street in the race from Lyttelton to Governors Bay and back [1910?]	A general view of the quarantine station on Quail Island, Lyttelton Harbour [1911]
Railway lines at Lyttelton and panoramic view of houses and hills [191-?]	Dyers Pass Road : the Lyttelton Harbour side. [ca. 1920]	Menzies Bay, Banks Peninsula [ca. 1921]
Steamer at Port Levy [ca. 1921]	Akaroa Harbour : view from Hilltop. [ca. 1921]	Picturesque Akaroa on Banks Peninsula is a favourite resort of motorists and holidaymakers in Canterbury [1925]
Horse and buggy crossing the bridge : looking up towards the Wairewa Valley from Little River, Banks Peninsula [1925]	The whare at Purau, Banks Peninsula [ca. 1930]	A view from a postcard of Akaroa township [21 June 1932]
The beach at Corsair Bay, Lyttelton Harbour [193-?]	New tonnage record for Lyttelton of 89,670 tons when 20 ships were berthed in the inner harbour and one in the stream awaiting a berth [14 Nov. 1949]	The neat and orderly appearance of the road tunnel to Christchurch, which was officially opened by the Governor-General, 27 February 1964 [Mar. 1964]
Sheep, Bridle Path Road - on the way to the Mount Pleasant shearing sheds	St. Mary's Bridle Path Road, Heathcote - Snow - Church next door to Hillwood	Everything was done by hand & meant lots of carrying to the packing shed. All the hillside was hand-dug & irrigated by a windmill in the paddock land in paddock land opposite the orchard on the hillside