Corsair Bay Beach
Sheltered harbour swimming cove with a prisoner-built sea wall, jetty, raft and bathing-era remnants.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Corsair Bay Beach in Lyttelton, on Christchurch's harbour, is about the stone sea wall at your back and the prison labour gang put to work on this rocky cove in the early nineteen hundreds. It touches the Edwardian craze for harbour bathing, the salt-water baths and their fences, and an abattoir next door that the swimmers had good reason to worry about. Listen with a hand on the wall.
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