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Gisborne's main street

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Gisborne's main street

Gladstone Road, the principal street in downtown Gisborne, on a busy spring morning in 2011. The clock tower was completed in 1934 as a memorial to Reginald Deason Blandford Robinson, who was town clerk from 1891 to 1933.

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Monty Soutar, East Coast places – Gisborne, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/33531/gisbornes-main-street (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Monty Soutar, published 9 December 2011, updated 1 March 2015.