26 Feb 2020

Street art features on restored gun emplacements

From Checkpoint, 6:24 pm on 26 February 2020

A network of gun emplacements used to keep out a Japanese invasion during World War II have been given a new lease on life.

The concrete bunkers and underground ammunition rooms at the entry to Lyttelton Harbour were badly damaged during the 2011 quakes and heavily tagged, but are now back in fighting form.

Conan Young went to the official re-opening.