as it was 1998
There are a lot of pictures, and I thought as you came to see Alexandra I have made them large, therefore they will take time to download. Please enjoy each one.
When you have finished please sign and view the guestbook, who knows you may catch up with a long lost friend.
Hi there, my name is John Griffiths (thats me in the picture up the Cairnmuir Range, overlooking Cromwell and Bannockburn while at work for Central Electric) and I have lived in Alexandra, New Zealand for about 25years.
Over this time I have gathered a few facts and Photographs of places in Alexandra, Omakau, Lauder, Ranfuly, Clyde, Earnscleugh and Cromwell which I would like to share with you, whether you are a intending visitor, a local or a former resident who has wandered away and would like to reminisce back to I hope happy times.
These images recorded on a Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD71 Camera.
Tarbert Street from the War Memorial. 20/3/99
Tarbert Street. 20/3/99
The Bridge from the picnic area, Dunorling Street. 20/3/99
Cool Times at the Pool.
The Golden Block, Centennial Avenue. 20/3/99
Church of St John The Baptist, Killarney Street. 20/3/99
The Museum
The Old Courthouse.
The Clock Hill from the Linger and Die. 20/3/99
The Childrens area, Pioneer Park..20/3/99
The Gardens, Pioneer Park. 20/3/99
The Central Electric Building, Centennial Avenue, now the home of Smiths City. The William Brigans clock taken from the old building in Tarbert Street above the entrance. 20/3/99
The Memorial Hall, now a much updated and improved Cinema, good sound at last! Skird Street. 20/3/99
The Gardens, Pioneer Park, looking towards Tarbert Street. 20/3/99
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Tarbert Street by night, Budgie's Pharmacy in green.............The setting sun highlights the hills over Finlay Street
An old time Rogers loco, ' Washington' in Alexandra Station Yard, while staring in a film being made there. With the removal of restrictions on lorry mileage, the railway quickly ran down and the end of construction of the Clyde dam saw the death of the line. I worked for a time on the track gang between Cromwell and Ranfuly and, in the fruit season, saw all hands in the station yard loading Apricots, peaches and nectarines into waiting wagons.
The Shaky Bridge looking from Tucker Hill towards the Town Bridge, the Town Centre to the middle right and Bridge Hill to the left.
Walk for a few kms from Lauder along the Rail Trail towards Ranfuly and you will come to the 2 tunnels. I took this picture standing on one looking towards the other. On the other side of the tunnel you can see is one of the magnificent viaducts that grace this line. Only the portals of the tunnels are brick, the rest inside is plain rock, you can see the marks in it from tools used to hack it out.
The Airforce uses Alexandra Airport for exercises from time to time. At the end of each one they open up to the public and give a little airshow. These Hercules Aircraft had been buzzing the town for a couple of weeks prior.
The Clock on the hill is covered by low mist and hoar frost is on the trees in this photo taken from Finlay Street, looking along Killarney Street. It is below freezing.
Steam engines took on water here long ago, its remoteness preserves it, not many around today. The New Zealand Railways Water tower, at the Roxburgh end of the line from Dunedin. the Station buildings now a woolshed stand at the back of this picture. Inside the old station safe and ticket windows are still intact.
Back in 1865 during the goldrush, local man Willian Rigney found the body of a man on the side of the Clutha River, he took the body and buried it, on the headstone (the wooden one in a frame against the later stone one) he inscribed 'Somebody's Darling Lies Buried Here'.
Later when he died in 1903 he was buried alongside and his stone reads 'Here Lies Willian Rigney The Man Who Buried Somebody's Darling'.
To get here, take the bridge to Millers Flat turn right and carry on along that road, then go on to the old railway trackbed (signposted 'Lonely Graves').
Well Glenda, you asked in the guestbook for more CE staff pictures, so here is one with YOU centre stage.
from the left John, Michelle, Yvonne, Glenda, Chris and Ross
Please view the new Guestbook entries
Some of my pictures of Lake Tekapo, Mount Cook and the Mackenzie Country.
New Zealand Railways, Hyde Disaster 1943.
Where to go and what to do in Central Otago
Otago Goldfields Heritage Trail.
The Pages of Vonda Stanley. Visit the Zoo
Olivers Lodge & Restaraunt, Clyde
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Reasearch, Lauder
Thanks for calling you are our visiter
Hope you enjoyed your visit
Anyone or any organisation wishing to be included in these pages or even wishing for me to create a web page for them here, please get in touch with me. There would be NO charge as this is done for the love of it.
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