Story: Streets and lighting

Christchurch lanes

Open sewer, Queen Street

Plea to improve street, 1858

Tarsealing, 1925

Suburban street, 2007

Early street plan

Minimum street widths

Widening Wallace Street

One-way street

Building Newmarket viaduct

Street building, late 19th century

Nelson council workers, 1890s

Smoko

Laying wood blocks, 1913

Laying bitumen

Relief work, 1930s

Mechanisation, 1950s

Streetscape, early 20th century

Verandah collapse

Department store verandah

Verandah signs, 1960s

Lamplight, 1867

Gas lighting

City lights, 1960s

Electric lighting, 1960s

Auckland at night