Fernhill Hotel

Date: [ca 1925-1935]

By: Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-0451

Description: Photographs of Hastings and the surrounding area taken by H J Lovell-Smith. They include photographs of earthquake damage to shops in Hastings; the flooding of the Ngaruroro River; excavation of the site of the new swimming pool in Havelock North; a man and a boy sheltering from the rain outside a barbers shop; the Soldiers Memorial Hospital; Taradale Post and Telegraph Office with the library across the street; two men working on a steam locomotive; neon sign on Queen's Wharf, Auckland; wedding photograph of a couple named Harper and Ward (the groom was a minister); five men next to a crashed aeroplane on a snowy hillside; a Windsor chair made from New Zealand birch; schoolgirls leaving Hastings High School; a view across Hastings, possibly from the Clock Tower, over Railway Road and towards St Andrew's Church; two of the Cosy Buildings (possibly previously the Douglas Buildings), one when the picture theatre had the electric sign "Cosy" hanging from it and was showing the film Nurse Marjorie and the other without the sign and with the ground floor closed up; and the new Post and Telegraph Office built to replace the old one after the earthquake. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: 1/1-019317-G

Description: A Republic Royal Mail bus owned by Graham and Gebbies parked outside the Fernhill Hotel, Hawkes Bay. Photograph taken by Henry Whitehead circa 1920s. Note on back of file print reads: "The bus was owned by "Grahame & Gebbies", left Hastings at approx 7.30 am. Solid tyres and possibly chain driven to the rear wheels, & the make would be "Republic". Jim Painter was the driver in 1921 and drove it for many, many years. Its trip ended at Waiwhare from where it returned to Hastings." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative