LEFT: Christ Church Cathedral dominates Trafalgar Street today. RIGHT: Horse taxi cabs wait quietly in Trafalgar Street in 1885 while a business conversation is conducted in the middle of the street nearby. Obvious signs of the pace of life in early Nelson. The Anglican Church, with its commanding view down Trafalgar Street, was opened in 1851. The building pictured here was replaced in 1887 by a wooden cathedral. The marble cathedral that now stands on this site was built in the 1920s. The ornate street light was erected as a memorial to a leading city merchant, Mr John Symons. It was a combined gas lamp and drinking fountain. In 1906, a street cleaner attempted to find a gas leak around the lamp with a lighted match. The resulting explosion injured the street cleaner, killed his work mate and wrecked the monument. (Photograph is reproduced from the collection in the Nelson Provincial Museum).
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Press, 14 July 1982, Page 28
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152LEFT: Christ Church Cathedral dominates Trafalgar Street today. RIGHT: Horse taxi cabs wait quietly in Trafalgar Street in 1885 while a business conversation is conducted in the middle of the street nearby. Obvious signs of the pace of life in early Nelson. The Anglican Church, with its commanding view down Trafalgar Street, was opened in 1851. The building pictured here was replaced in 1887 by a wooden cathedral. The marble cathedral that now stands on this site was built in the 1920s. The ornate street light was erected as a memorial to a leading city merchant, Mr John Symons. It was a combined gas lamp and drinking fountain. In 1906, a street cleaner attempted to find a gas leak around the lamp with a lighted match. The resulting explosion injured the street cleaner, killed his work mate and wrecked the monument. (Photograph is reproduced from the collection in the Nelson Provincial Museum). Press, 14 July 1982, Page 28
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