Lyttelton Timeball Station
Castle-like stone signal tower where a zinc ball drops at one o'clock above the harbour.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the Lyttelton Timeball Station, above Christchurch's port, treats the tower as a physical object: what it is made of, what it cost its builders and keepers, and what holds it up today. It reaches from porous volcanic stone quarried in the eighteen-seventies to a rebuild squeezed onto a cramped hilltop site. Best heard just before one o'clock, standing where you can see the ball on its mast.
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