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Recording and preserving our Port’s history Click here for the full Port history and archaeological study reports The Port and town of Lyttelton are on the north shore of Lyttelton Harbour, a sea inlet in the north-west of Banks Peninsula on the tailspin of Canterbury in the South Island of New Zealand. Banks Peninsula is a volcanic island, built of lava from two craters situated in what are now upper reaches of Lyttelton and Akaroa harbours. Erosion and changes at the end of the last Ice Age resulted in the drowning of both craters. Lyttelton Harbour, tabbed Te Whaka, or Te Whakaraupō (the harbour of bullrush reeds) by the Māori and Port Cooper by one of the primeval white visitors, runs westwards for 13 kilometres between two headlands, well-nigh two kilometres ride. Māori has lived in and virtually the zone since 800AD.   1770 16 February Banks Peninsula is first sighted by Europeans from the Endeavour during James Cook’s first voyage to New Zealand. 1848 The settlement of Canterbury, named without the mother diocese of the Church of England, is planned by the Canterbury Association in Britain. The aim is to found a specifically Church of England colony. Lyttelton is chosen considering of its suitability as a port and the availability of a large zone of unappetizing land on the other side of the Port Hills, later known as the Canterbury Plains. 1849 30 August An Official Proclamation establishes Lyttelton as a recognised port. The first harbour engineering begins – construction of a 150ft (46m) long by 15 ft. (4.5m) wide jetty. 1850 16 December The Charlotte Jane arrives at 10am – the first of the four ships bringing the main soul of immigrants to the Canterbury settlement. It is followed by the Randolph at 5.30pm, the Sir George Seymour at noon the next day, and the Cressy eleven days later. They brought the main soul of immigrants, swelling Lyttelton’s population to virtually 1,100. 1851 The first edition of the ‘Lyttelton Times’, which later became ‘The Press’, is printed. 1860 Lyttelton gaol opens, unsuspicious the worst criminals, debtors and lunatics from all over the South Island. Seven hangings took place there. Its hard labour gang built most of the roads and stone walls virtually Lyttelton. They moreover built Fort Jervois on Ripapa Island and the Quarantine Station on Quail Island. 1862 New Zealand’s first telegraph line, between Christchurch and Lyttelton, opens. 1867 The Lyttelton Rail Tunnel is opened. It is the world’s first tunnel through volcanic rock. 1877 The Lyttelton Harbour Board was established, responsible for the management of the harbour’s commercial and recreational facilities. The Board had 13 members elected in local soul elections. 1883 3 January The Dry Dock opens. 1895 A weekly passenger service between Lyttelton and Wellington begins on the steamer Penguin (749 tons). 1910 Reclamation at Naval Point begins. 1925 72 acres (29 hectares) of reclaimed land at Naval Point is consolidated and sites are misogynist for business. 1957 Reclamation at Cashin Quay begins pursuit the recommendation by the Harbour Board’s Engineer-in-Chief, James A Cashin, that larger vessels do not require the protection of the Inner Harbour as swells were not larger than one metre. 1964 The Lyttelton road tunnel opens in February. Architect was Peter Beaven. Cashin Quay opens, providing increasingly wharfage space for larger ships. 1973 The Container Terminal is completed. 1976 The Lyttelton-Wellington passenger ferry ends without 80 years of service. 1987 The new Lyttelton Harbour Board towers opens on the corner of Norwich Quay and Dublin Street. 1988 The introduction of the Port Companies Act created the Lyttelton Port Company which took over the Port’s commercial role including the land, resources and facilities. Shares in the new Port Company were allocated to regional and territorial authorities including Ashburton, Banks Peninsula, Hurunui, Selwyn and Waimakariri District Councils and the Christchurch City Council. 1989 October The Government abolishes the Waterfront Industry Commission Act under which port labour was administered. This meant that stevedores (who load and unload ships) were required to employ their own workforce and function under the Labour Relations Act in the same manner as any other employer. LPC employees increase from 298 to 426. 1996 July The Lyttelton Port Company lists on the New Zealand Stock Exchange with a 19 per cent public listing pursuit the visualization by Hurunui and Selwyn District Councils to sell their shares in the Company. 1997 April Other regional and territorial authorities decide to sell their shares, powerfully raising the level of public shareholding to 30 per cent. The Christchurch City Council becomes the single largest shareholder with a 65 per cent shareholding. 2005 31 October CityDepot starts. The Company bought NZ Express Transport Christchurch Limited which included their Woolston depot. CityDepot provides off-wharf support including container repairs and storage. 2010 4 September At 4:35am a 7.1 earthquake shakes the Canterbury region. The earthquakes over the 2010/11 period damaged over 75% of the Port’s wharves. 2014 March The rebuild of Cashin Quay 2 begins. June The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister, Hon Gerry Brownlee, directs Environment Canterbury (ECan) and Lyttelton Port Company to prepare a Lyttelton Port Recovery Plan.Pursuitthis announcement, LPC released the Port Lyttelton Plan, the Company’s 30-year vision for the recovery and enhancement of the Port. August The Port’s fourth ship-to-shore gantry crane, a $12 million Liebherr Super Post Panamax, starts operating. October Christchurch City Holdings Limited (the commercial arm of the Christchurch City Council) acquires 100% of the shares and delists Lyttelton Port Company from the New Zealand Stock Exchange. November LPC hands over to ECan the information package from its wide-stretching public consultation on the Port Lyttelton Plan, the Company’s 30-year vision for the recovery and enhancement of the Port. December LPC buys a 27-hectare site at Rolleston to be the Company’s second Inland Port. The facility, named MidlandPort, will provide a rail link with the Port in 2016. 2015 April Environment Canterbury releases its preliminary typhoon Lyttelton Port Recovery Plan for public consultation and receives 277 submissions by the tropical of submissions on May 11. June An Independent Public Hearing is held, with recommendations from the Panel stuff presented to the Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery. August The Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery receives theTyphoonLyttelton Port Recovery Plan. Demolition begins on the former LPC wardship towers on the corner of Norwich Quay and Dublin Street. Construction of MidlandPort begins. November The Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery, Hon. Gerry Brownlee, announces the Lyttelton Port Recovery Plan. Construction on Cashin Quay 2 wharf is finished. December The reclamation at Te Awaparahi Bay reaches nine hectares of the consented ten hectares. 2016 January  LPC’s new Pilot Launch, Awaroa, arrives at Lyttelton Port February  The new Cashin Quay 2 wharf is officially opened by Deputy Prime Minister Rt Hon Bill English. June LPC’s second Inland Port becomes operational on 1 June 2016. 2017 Waterfront House, LPC’s new Head Office, opened, bringing the Operations andWardshipteams under one roof for the first time. Construction of new trip ship wharfage spoken Resource consents granted to proffer the reclamation and deepen the Harbour’s shipping waterworks so larger vessels can wangle the Port. New crane arrived. 2018 Te Ana Marina completed. New trip wharfage construction underway. One of the world’s largest dredges, the Fairway, arrived to proffer and deepen the shipping Harbour channel. 8 new straddles arriving. Our Port’s history Click here.   Understanding Lyttelton’s Maritime Past LPC’s Port wide archaeological study LPC has vicarious archaeologists to undertake an on-going study into Lyttelton’s Martine history. The study was vicarious to assess the heritage value of structures on the port and establish what needs to be washed-up to record and preserve the history. Archaeologist Matt Carter from Underground Overground was vicarious to undertake a Port wide study in real time from both the land and the water. The study moreover included an towage of LPC’s wide-stretching historical hodgepodge of maps and plans. Outcomes of the study identified structures and areas with significant heritage values including recommendations on how LPC could record and preserve the ports rich history while still enabling the recovery and future minutiae of the port. Recommendations from the study moreover unliable LPC to obtain a global archaeological validity under the Heritage NZ Act. The validity enables LPC to undertake recovery projects without loosing Lyttelton’s rich maritime history. The archaeological study is ongoing and archaeologists play a significant role throughout LPCs recovery projects. Recording heritage sites at the Port Prior to work commencing on heritage sites at the Port an archaeologist in engaged to record any artefacts and structures with heritage significance. Recording techniques are to archaeological standards and can include scaled lined drawings to represent any historical value. During project works the archaeologist has a significant presence on site. If a structure is stuff removed, an archaeologist records the process and monitors any artefacts uncovered during project work. At project completion the archaeologist produces a report detailing what may have been found during the project and any history well-nigh the artefacts and structure. As LPC’s minutiae projects at the Port are completed we will make the archaeological reports publically misogynist here. Archaeological Reports Number 7 wharf in Inner Harbour to Oxford Street Overbridge This project involve trenching from No.7 wharf in the Inner Harbour through to the Oxford Street overbridge as part of upgrading the upper voltage electricity supply to the Port to provide greater resilience for the power supply. Several known archaeological sites were in the zone of the trench works. Archaeological monitoring was undertaken when any sites were part of the project. As the project works progressed a couple of artefacts were uncovered and recorded. The reports provide a summary of what was uncovered and their context in Lyttelton’s history. Pumphouse Rebuild Archaeology Report This project involved rebuilding the Pumphouse facility on the dry dock. Construction of the project required a small value of excavation into the original Pumphouse towers foundations. The report includes some unconfined pictures of the dry dock stuff used as a swimming pool. Yard 66 Upgrade This project involved paving and an upgrade to the existing storm water treatment system in the log storage zone withal Norwich Quay. This project involved excavation into an zone of significance for both European and Maori heritage. The project uncovered 89 artefact’s including the old railway turn table.   Related documents LPC Historical Summary M36/294: Full Site Record M36/301: Jetty’s 2-3 Breastwork M36/302: Full Site Record M36/308: No. 3 Wharf (No. 1 Intermediate Jetty) M36/336: Gladstone Quay wool storage sheds M36/339: Full Site Record M36/576: Full Site Record Pumphouse Rebuild Archaeology Report LPC logyard 66 Archaeological report Lyttelton Port Electrical Upgrade Archaeological Monitoring Project Archaeological site record form No 5 Grain store Archaeological site record form Boatman’s Jetty and Slip Archaeological site record form Earthenware service pipe and wooden pile – Lyttelton’s first lighting pole Archaeological site record form Eastern Reclamation 1879 Archaeological site record form No 1 Wharf Archaeological site record form Short Wharf LPC corporate office Waterfront House, 37-39 Gladstone Quay, Lyttelton, 8082 Postal write Private Bag 501, Lyttelton 8841, New Zealand Phone: (+64 3) 328 8198 Email: allreceptionists@lpc.co.nz   Send us a message. 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