Photos, mainly from other times
These three photographs have nothing on them to indicate where or when they were taken.
Some decades ago I came to the conclusion that the photographs were taken at a horse racing track in Auckland but can no longer recall why. There are weatherboard buildings with corrugated iron rooves and the car is right hand drive. Overall it looks too colonial to be Britain and somehow too dour to be Australia.
Maybe it is just an ingrained view on the way folk drive up there.
The following photographs have been extracted from an educational film strip that was used in New Zealand schools during the 1960’s.
The film strip has a copyright notice of 1961 but, chances are, the images predate that by a year or more. Although the images are full-frame, the duplication quality of educational film strips was invariably poor and the soft emulsion degraded easily. The captions in particular are low quality. Still, to those of us who watched these as primary school children it was both fantastic and mythical (TV broadcasts only started in Auckland in 1960, 1961 for Christchurch and Wellington, and Dunedin 1962) and hardly anyone had a TV.
Conveniently the film strip contains three images similar to those produced in the 1890s (see a couple of posts back). The fourth image would suggest both Wellington and Auckland have a long way top go before their railway stations get really crowded.
London Bridge
Cross Roads in London
London and the Thames
Railway Station
There is nothing to indicate who took these photographs. The period is either very late 1880s or more possibly the 1890s. Contemporary with Sherlock Holmes.
London Bridge
Royal Exchange and Bank of England
Tower Bridge & London from the Monument