Cities and towns - England

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Southward, Keith, d 1944 :World War II aircrew photograph album

Date: [ca1920-ca1950]

By: Southward, Keith, 1921-1944

Reference: PA1-q-969

Description: Album probably compiled by Keith Southward, a New Zealand airman in World War II, showing training in New Zealand, Canada (Halifax) and England. Opens with a group photograph of women and airmen at the ANZAC Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Panama Canal taken March 1942 on the way to Canada. Views of Halifax, airmen, and convoy which took them to Britain. Servicemen in Bounmouth, England, and views of Bournemouth. Views of London, some of its notable buildings, and bomb damage. Views of the lake district aquired on a trip taken in August 1942. Many pages of postcards, commercial photographs of cities and villages visited in England. These are interspersed with photographs of airmen and other people. There are also three pages of photographs of Oxford training aircraft, probably taken in Canada. The album ends with photographs of family and friends in England and New Zealand, including three pages of ephemera. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Medley, Mary Catherine (Taylor), 1835-1922 :Southsea from South Parade, Dec 7 1910.

Date: 1910

From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835-1922 :Mary Medley [Sketchbook] No. 13 1909-1919.

Reference: E-378-022/023

Description: A scene at Southsea, Hampshire, England 1911, showing ships at sea and activities on the pier including a donkey and cart Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Southsea Dec 7 1910. from South Parade Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double page). Physical Description: Pencil, 163 x 447 cm. (page size)

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New Zealand Shipping Company :[Menus collected during a voyage on the Rangitiki, Wellin...

Date: 1958

By: New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.; Stewart, Kay, active 1950s?

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-Rangitiki-1958

Description: Menus with cover art work by Joseph Pike (London street scenes), Kay Stewart (British cathedrals), and HGH? (flower paintings including New Zealand flowers). London street scenes show: St Bartholomews Gateway, Smithfield; The clock tower, Hampton Court Palace; "Big Ben"; Staple Inn Holborn; St James's Palace; Middle Temple Lane; Church Street Windsor; St Bride's from Bride Lane. British cathedrals include: Exeter Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Lincoln Cathedral, Gloucester Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, York Minster. Flowers include: Dog rose, Pohutukawa, Kowhai, Wood anemone, Forget-me-not, Buttercup, Koromiko, Manuka. Quantity: 24 menus. Physical Description: Offset prints on folded cards, each 218 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Joan de Hamel, New South Wales, in 2004.

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Trip to England and Wales

Date: 1976

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6477

Description: Mousehole Village, Cornwall. Birds nesting on island off Land's End. Land's End and lighthouse. St Just Village, Cornwall. Cornwall countryside. St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire. Pembrokeshire coast near Fishguard. Tregaron Bog. Road from Tregaron. On the road to Beulah. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

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Photographs of buildings and places in France and Britain relating to Katherine Mansfield

Date: 1987

From: Sundborn, Maggy, 1937-1990 : Photographs of buildings and places in France and Britain relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: PAColl-6920-3

Description: A number of unidentified European buildings and places. In England the village of Asheham and Virginia and Leonard Woolfs home, "Monks House; Queen's College school, London Quantity: 89 colour original photographic print(s).

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Trip to England. Commercial photographs and postcards

Date: 1928

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1057

Description: Commercial photographs and postcards collected on a trip to England in 1928. They include Perth Western Australia, the Suez Canal, Port said and Cairo in Egypt, Naples and Pompei in Italy, Toulon and Paris in France as well as a group showing the interiors of the Royal Palace at Fontainebleau, Windsor Castle, St Albans, Stratford on Avon, and Oxford in England. There is a photograph of the liner "Osterly", and others showing its first class public rooms. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :[View of a town from a bay. 1870s?]

Date: 1875

From: Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e. 95] / [by] C W Richmond.

Reference: E-284-079

Description: A view of a town from the water. Shows a castle on a hilltop and a large town below, possibly Dover Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 141 x 225 mm

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Jennifer McLeod with Peter Schat in Amsterdam and London, and Craig McLeod in Singapore

Date: 1970s-1997

From: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022: Collection

Reference: PAColl-7480-2

Description: Most of the images in this collection relate to Jennifer McLeod and her association with the Dutch composer Peter Schat. Views of the exterior and interior of Schat's house in Amsterdam in the 1980s and 1990s. Social events, friends, Schat's son Bastiaan, and trips to Greece and London, the latter probably relating to the launch there of a book on Schat's "Tone Clock" system of musical construction. There are three photographs relating to Jenny McLeod's brother Craig and to his marriage and home in Singapore, and one image and a post card of and from her friend Derek Sanders Quantity: 65 colour original photographic print(s).

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Auckland, organic vegetable gardens, and Oundle England

Date: ca 1960-1990

From: Hamilton, Walter Ian, 1905-1992? :Photographs of overseas trips and New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-7987-2

Description: Views of Auckland, Oundle town and school England, sculpture, organic vegetable gardens, Ian Hamilton and unidentified people. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 41 colour original photographic print(s).

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Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898 :Eltham. 1860

Date: 1860

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-032

Description: View of Eltham, Greenwich, London Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 160 mm

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Ronald Dellow in London

Date: 1972

From: Dellow, Ronald Graeme, 1924-2004 :Photographs of musicians, musicians groups, singers and choirs

Reference: PA12-5666

Description: Photographs of Ronald Dellow and other people in London streets. People and venue which may be associated with the Hamilton Music School. Most probably photographed by Ronald Dellow in 1972 Quantity: 14 colour original transparency/ies.

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[King, Martha] 1803?-1897 :Wanganui (I think) [1840s or earlier]

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897

Reference: A-100-007

Description: A damaged post and rail fence running beneath tall trees, towards a bend in a river. On the far side of the river are European buildings. Probably a scene in England or Ireland, drawn before Martha King emigrated to New Zealand in 1840. A man is seated on a large flat rock in the foreground, and another figure is seated beneath a tree Inscriptions: Recto - In pencil: Wanganui I think. [In a later hand, not that of the artist] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 187 x 278 mm

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Medley, Mary Catherine (Taylor), 1835-1922 :St Mawan. Revd G Kingdon. Falmouth. Sep 21 ...

Date: 1910

From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835-1922 :Mary Medley [Sketchbook] No. 13 1909-1919.

Reference: E-378-016/017

Description: A boating scene at St Mawes, Falmouth 1910 Other Titles - St Mawes Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Sep 21 1910 - Revd G Kingdon Falmouth - Trehimsey ? Team. St Mawan Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double page). Physical Description: Pencil, 163 x 447 cm. (page size)

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Photographs of buildings and places in France and Britain relating to Katherine Mansfield

Date: 1987

From: Sundborn, Maggy, 1937-1990 : Photographs of buildings and places in France and Britain relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: PAColl-6920-2

Description: Cornwall and (presumably) views of the villages of Zennor and Mylor; London and Beauchamp Lodge, Paddington, and 5 Acacia Road, St John's Wood; Menton, France, and Ospedaletti, Italy; Bandol Quantity: 150 colour original photographic print(s). 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

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Lindsay John Mackersey's Album: Occupation of Rhineland, No.2

Date: 1919

From: Boyd, Mary Beatrice 1921- :Photographs relating to Mackersey family

Reference: PA1-o-1733

Description: Opens with views of Leverkusen, the Rhine, and the factory of F Bayer & Co (Bayer AG today). Other views include - Bayer's head office building used by New Zealand Divisional Headquarters. The Casino and the adjacent Bayer factory park. Suburban houses called "The Colony." Other German photographs include - Cologne, particularly the Hoenzollern Brisge and Cologne Cathedral. Kaiser Wilhelm (Mungsten) Viaduct. Mungstan Village. The River Wapper. Soldier with a camera. English photographs include - Brockenhurst and Margaret Mackersey as an ambulance driver. Birds in the London Zoo. Grays Inn Hall, London. Views taken during a trip on the thames. Sphinx at Cleopatra's Needle. Inns of Court. Inner Temple Library. Thames Embankment. Houses of Parliament. Trip back to New Zealand via Panama Canal. Includes - Colon. Views of the Canal and its technologies from the ship. Groups of passangers on deck. Leslie Mackersey was in the 6th Rifles 1 NZEF. Lindsay Mackersey was in the 24th Rifles. While in the occupation force in Germany he served as instructor-in-law to service men studying for law degrees prior to repatriation. He was bilited in Leverhusen Village near Cologne in 1919. Margaret was on the staff at the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

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Photographs of Battle, Sussex, England, in the 1930s, and Warsaw in the late 1940s

Date: ca1931-1949

From: Sutch, William Ball, 1907-1975 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7591-3

Description: Photographs of post Second World War Warsaw (Warszawa) Poland in ruins. This sequence of images also includes two photographs of a group of unidentified people at a table socialising. The other main group of images are commerial tourist photographs of Battle, Sussex, and the remains of the abbey built on the site of the battle of Hastings. There are also three envelopes of matches, two bearing the portrait of Sutch and one the portrait of Shirley Smith, souveniers of Leon and Eddies New York night club dated 2 June 1948 Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Photographs of England and the Pori area, New Zealand

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1206

Description: Most of the New Zealand images relate to the Nelson family, their farms, farm houses, and farm buildings in the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and scenic views of the area such as the Makuri River, a waterfall at Tiraumea, Annedale north of Tainui, the Pori Bridge, and native forest. The images of the farm houses include building a stable and buggy house, views of the yard with washing drying, a hen run, and a view of the dining room at "Ruatea". Four images are of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are three photographs of local Maori, one of bullock teams at Tiraumea, snow covered landscape at "Nga Mahanga", a picnic group with horses and buggys, and many views of the countryside from the Nelson farms showing cleared, partially cleared and forested land, much of it covered with the gaunt trunks of burnt off bush. There are group photographs of the families and friends. As well as the men these include women (wives?) Lucy, Katie, and Winifred, and children, Robert, Frances, and Dorothea. Other new Zealand houses include two probably located at Annedale with the names "Te Hoe" and "Manawa", and another in Featherston called "Newstead". The English images are of family and friends and various places, houses and churches which include Dover, Tunbridge Wells, Broadstairs, Minehead, Ostend, Clovelly, Lynton, Lymouth, Doon Valley, Meywingen, St Saviours Leeds, and Chester Cathedral Arrangement: Loose prints originally in this album can be found at PAColl-7868-1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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A trip to England. From Toulon to England

Date: 1928

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1055

Description: Trip to England; from Toulon and Gibraltar to England. There are images of groups of friends and then trips from London to Oxford, St Albans, Kenilworth, and Guildford which included villages such as Chalfont St Giles and Nuneham Courtney. Others record a walking tour through the Buckinghamshire countryside between Chenies and Rickmansworth which took in a stately home at Moor Park. Stratford on Avon and Canterbury complete the English section of this album, after which the photographer visited Paris, France Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Dunbar Sloane Auctions :Japanese occupation photographs

Date: 1947

Reference: PA1-o-977

Description: The album contains three groups of photographs. The first group are the personal snaps taken by the creator of this collection who was a member of the British section of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan. The second group are commercial photographs of Kure, and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bomb. There are also photographs of Mt Fujiama and Miss Japan 1947. The third group of images is made up of postcards of English towns, cities and cathedrals Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Photographs of the village of Petham, Kent, England

Date: ca1860-ca1952

From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7369-11

Description: Most of the photographs are views of the village of Pehtam, Kent, England, taken from about the 1860s to the 1900s. General views of the village in the pastoral landscape of the North Downs, houses some with thatched roofs, streets in the village, and a large windmill on Stone Street. There are five views of All Saints Church, exteriors and interiors, all dating from the late 19th century. Petham was the village that Mollie Gambrill's father's family came from to New Zealand in the late 1880s, and where much of the extended family continued to live Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).