Lyttelton Timeball Station

The Lyttelton Timeball Station was a background-registered time ball station and outstanding neighborhood landmark in Lyttelton, New Zealand. The unique station become notably damaged by a sequence of earthquakes and aftershocks in 2010 and 2011, and eventually collapsed on 13 June 2011 after a value 6.4 aftershock. The tower become sooner or later reconstructed, reopening in November 2018. John Thomas Peacock, a businessman and flesh presser, first got here to Lyttelton in 1844. He constructed the primary large wharf and turned into properly mounted by the point massive numbers of settlers started arriving six years later with the First Four Ships.

Peacock first promoted the erection of a time ball station in Lyttelton as a Member of the House of Representatives, however his proposal changed into rejected. He changed into also a Member of the Canterbury Provincial Council, and his notion in 1870 for a Lyttelton time ball discovered help. It changed into the 0.33 time ball in New Zealand, after Wellington 1864 and Dunedin 1868 The station, which became designed through nearby architect Thomas Cane, become finished in 1876. The castle-like complex to start with comprised an octagonal tower supporting the time ball and a three-storey constructing which provided lodging, paintings regions as well as housing the clock.