Elephants on Rolleston Avenue: Picturing Canterbury

Elephants on Rolleston Avenue. Entry by Alan Tunnicliffe in the 2020 Christchurch City Libraries Photo Hunt. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. CCL-PH20-211.

"Elephants and horses from a visiting circus being exercised, Rolleston Avenue, Chch, outside Christ's College, 30th January 1979." - Contributor's note.

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