Hospital Hill, Napier after the 3 February 1931 earthquake
Maker
Hurst, Arthur Bendigo
Production date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Current rights
Public Domain
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About this object
The photograph shows the destruction caused to Hospital Hilll after the 3 February 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. There has been a huge landslide with the result that the house at 6 Hooker Avenue is a teetering over the edge of the cliff. Traction engine(s) were said to have been used to pull this house back further onto the section.
Photographer, Arthur Bendigo Hurst.
Date, post 3 February 1931.
Photographer, Arthur Bendigo Hurst.
Date, post 3 February 1931.
Production date
Post 03 Feb 1931
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Black & white photograph.
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Measurements
Height x Width: 85 x 143mm
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Subject date
Post 03 Feb 1931
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Other number(s)
2015/48/3, 19823, 92890
Accession number
2015/48/3
Public comments
This is not Bluff Hill but no 6 Hooker Avenue. We lived next door at no 8. The elderly lady living in this house was there at the time of the earthquake and said they had to use traction engine/s to pull this house back further on to o the section. Where we there, the foundations of the house here perched on the cliff were still able to be seen
- Tony Smith posted 4 years ago.