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Linwood Avenue MED substation

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Linwood Avenue MED substation

Many civic buildings were connected to the provision of essential infrastructure such as water, sewerage and electricity reticulation. Most were plain and utilitarian, but during the 1920s and 1930s the Christchurch Municipal Electricity Department fancifully designed its substations to resemble Greco-Roman temples.

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Ben Schrader, Public buildings – Civic and cultural buildings, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/36464/linwood-avenue-med-substation (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ben Schrader, i tāngia i te 29 May 2012.